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Science 52' 90'

Diving with the Coelacanth: The Fish Out of Time

120 metres down off the wild coast of South Africa lives an animal once thought to have been extinct for 65 million years - the coelacanth, locally known as Gombessa.

A dinosaur fish, a living fossil, that remains the only link connecting fish to terrestrial tetrapods: its fins contain the beginning of reptile and mammal leg bones! And what about the vestigial lung found at the back of its huge mouth?…

A team of underwater explorers will film these legendary fish like never before.

A unique human adventure and a media-worthy scientific project.

Direction: Gil Kébaïli

Production: Les Films d'Ici for ARTE and France Télévisions

Languages: French, English

awards & festivals

  • Pariscience

    Audience Award

  • Pariscience

    Buffon Award (for biodiversity)

  • Underwater Film Festival ((Marseille, France)

    Jury Special Prize

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