Le coelacanthe, plongée vers nos origines
details
- Production
- 2013, France
- Original language
- French
- Running time
- 01:30:00
- Genre
- documentary
- Topic
- sea biology, nature
- Directed by
- Gil Kebaïli
- Written by
- Laurent Ballesta et Gil Kebaïli
- Produced by
- © Les films d'Ici - Andromède Oceanographie - ARTE France
- Member page
- Les Films d'ici 2
Considered to be the greatest zoological discovery of the 20th century, the coelacanth was thought to have been extinct for 63 million years before turning up in a fisherman’s net in 1938. From that day on, this castaway from a bygone age has fired the imagination of countless researchers the world over.
It is the last living witness of that time, its body bears the traces of an exceptional episode - the day that a fish dared to leave the ocean to breathe in the air. This brave leap led to the advent of all four-legged animals, then man, several million years later.

Selected at Pariscience 2014 - Buffon Prize
See the showing : Thursday 02nd October 2014 from 13h00 to 15h00, Sunday 05th October 2014 from 13h30 to 15h45, Saturday 11th October 2014 from 14h00 to 15h30