Meet Jack L. Norton: The palaeontology student who found a 150-year-old museum fossil and revealed a missing link in coelacanth evolution |
Image: ResearchGate/Jack Norton A fossil that had sat inside London’s Natural History Museum since the 19th century appeared to have little left to reveal. Then palaeontology student Jack L. Norton took a closer look. While studying for his Master’s degree at the University of Portsmouth, Norton and his former supervisor, Dr Samuel Cooper, re-examined the…