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Coelacanths are large fish that evolved 410 ... The newly identified species' scientific name means "ancient fish" in the language of the First Nations Gooniyandi people, who live near the fossil ...

The fish was a coelacanth, one of a group that was thought to have gone extinct 70 million years earlier. But this one was alive. An unusual fish On 22 December 1938, Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer, ...

In 1998, a second living species of coelacanth, Latimeria menadoensis (named ikan raja laut, the king fish of the sea ... are the only survivors of an ancient lineage that appears to have evolved ...

Related: This 'ancient' monster fish may live for 100 years Few vertebrate species spark as much curiosity as the coelacanth, as much for the fascinating story of its discovery as for its status ...

Coelacanths are difficult to classify. They have many characteristics in common with sharks, and yet in certain characteristics they more closely resemble other types of fish. In this activity ...

Million-Year-Old Giant Fish Remains Discovered in Australia, Experts Call It ‘Living Fossil' The coelacanth, often referred ...

Oliver, J-C, Shum, P, Mariani, S, Sink, KJ, Palmer, R and Matcher, GF (2024) Enhancing African coelacanth monitoring using environmental DNA. Biology Letters, 20 (10). ISSN 1744-9561 ...

With the aid of the intracranial joint and other cranial muscles, the coelacanth usually swallows its prey whole. Its teeth are designed not so much to grab or slice fish but to prevent them from ...

amid an otherwise ordinary haul of fish. Though she didn't know it straightaway, Courtenay-Latimer had rediscovered the coelacanth, which was assumed to have died out at the end of the Cretaceous ...

The scientists determined that the fish once populated the ancient Hula Lake which existed at the site until it was drained in the 1950s to try to eradicate malaria-carrying mosquitoes.

This "living fossil" can grow as large as an alligator, has two rows of needle-sharp teeth, and such strong armor that it survived predatory dinosaurs.