THE SUZUKI GS500

n December 22, 1938, Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer spotted an unusual fin in a pile of discarded waste fish on a dock in East London, South Africa. Latimer, a local museum curator, didn’t know the 127-pound deep-blue fish to which that fin was attached was special—but she knew it was special, so she convinced an expert to come see it two months later. He identified it as a coelacanth, an ancestor of both modern fish modern animals, thought to have gone extinct 66 million years ago. Of course, no-body. It’s just been minding its own business this whole time, and since it wasn’t really broken, evolution didn’t see any need to fix it.