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

The ancient coelacanth, a lobe-finned fish, is a “living fossil” in every sense of the term. ... [+] Biologists believe this supreme survivor has undergone little change in 400 million years.

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

Flinders University vertebrate palaeontologist Dr Alice Clement looking at a model of a modern-day coelacanth and a 3D printed skull of the Ngamugawi wirngarri coelacanth. Disclaimer: AAAS and ...

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

Paleontologists recently discovered a new extinct coelacanth species that highlights the role that Earth’s plate tectonics plays in evolution. Also called Latimeria, coelacanths are a deep-sea ...

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

Coelacanths are deep-sea fish that live off the coasts of southern Africa and Indonesia and can reach up to two meters in length. For a long time, scientists believed they were extinct. In new ...