The ancient coelacanth, a lobe-finned fish, is a “living fossil” in every sense of the term. Biologists believe this supreme ...

The ancient coelacanth, which has existed for some 419 million years, never stopped evolving despite its reputation as a ...

The two fossil specimens, representing a single coelacanth, were collected during a 2008 expedition to what was once an ...

Coelacanth fossils like these are useful because two known coelacanth species are still alive today. They are likened to ...

Ngamugawi wirngarri is a new species of coelacanth, an ancient fish species that has lived on Earth for over 400 million ...

Coelacanths are deep-sea fish that live off the coasts of southern Africa and Indonesia and can reach up to two meters in ...

The coelacanth is an oddly-named lobe-fish that was thought to be extinct for more than 60 million years until it was ...

Coelacanths, once thought extinct, are deep-sea fish found off the coasts of southern Africa and Indonesia. Recent research revealed the best-preserved coelacanth fossil from northern Western ...

Climate change and asteroids are linked with animal origin and extinction—and plate tectonics also seems to play a key ...

Today, the living coelacanth Latimeria (Sarcopterygii: Actinistia) is an iconic, so-called ‘living fossil’ within one of the ...

The discovery of ancient remains from a primitive fish in outback Australia has helped reveal a new understanding about the ...