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

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

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

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

Australian lungfish are known to be ultra-survivors, but this lungfish is pushing the boundaries even for its own kind. At ...

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

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

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

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

Researchers compare new coelacanth fossils to ones that came before and after and link evolutionary changes to tectonic ...

To improve the crack resistance of concrete, the team took inspiration from the double-helical scales of the coelacanth, an ...

Researchers have discovered a well-preserved Devonian coelacanth fish in Western Australia, shedding light on the connection ...