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Susan Coltrin-DRT Board Member

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 In memory of Susan Coltrin (December 2020): Susan was a fierce docent advocate! She served on the DRT Board for more than 10 years Had a wonderful sense of humor and fine mind. We will miss her.  

Smithsonian article on Coleacanths

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In the 1930s, This Natural History Curator Discovered a Living Fossil–Well, Sort of Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer was convinced she’d found something special in a pile of fish, but it took some time for her discovery to be recognized Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer stands with the taxidermied remains of her groundbreaking discovery. (Wikimedia Commons) By Kat Eschner smithsonianmag.com December 22, 2017 It was a pre-Christmas miracle: on this day in 1938