Hope and Fear

This series was finished early 2020 before our first lockdown. It has become even more pertinent (I feel) in our current world.
The Coelacanth is the symbol of HOPE and the Crocodile being the symbol of FEAR.

Coelacanths were thought to be extinct. They were known only from fossils until a live Latimeria chalumnae (Coelacanth) was discovered off the coast of South Africa in 1938. Until then, they were presumed to have gone extinct in the late Cretaceous period, over 65 million years ago. Museum curator Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer discovered the fish among the catch of a local angler, in East London (Eastern Cape in South Africa). Latimer contacted a Rhodes University ichthyologist, J. L. B. Smith, who identified the fish. This particular Coelacanth is one that is still on display in the Ichthyology Department in Grahamstown (my home town as a child in South Africa).