[telescope115]

No. I think it was in the 1930s when an archaeologist discovered that native people were catching and eating them. Someone had brought him one, and he was shocked to see it.

[mass55th]

It was the female curator Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer of the local museum in South Africa:

In the 1930s, This Natural History Curator Discovered a Living Fossil–Well, Sort of