Ca Academy of Sciences: Science Heroes: John Mc Cosker, a Living Fossil

The California Academy of Sciences sent John McCosker and a team of oceanographers to Grand Comore, an island in the Indian Ocean off the eastern coast of Africa. There, they obtained two coelacanth specimens, which provided researchers at numerous laboratories with an unparalleled opportunity to perform dissections, examine tissue, and determine if coelacanths were, in fact, the missing relative that linked fish and amphibians. [1:08]