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The coelacanth's dramatic reappearance in 1938 - when a specimen was hauled from the depths off the South African coast by a commercial trawler and identified by the museum curator Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer - constituted one of the most electrifying zoological revelations of the twentieth century, overturning the…

• Which organism's rediscovery by science after an absence of millions of years from the known biological record caused a sensation in the zoological community?
• Which organism's blood contains a substance so acutely reactive to bacterial contamination that it has become the definitive pharmaceutical safety test?