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.

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 fish ...

According to an Osaka Metropolitan University-led research group, a bluestreak cleaner wrasse (Labroides dimidiatus) check ...

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 ...

The newly identified species of coelacanth, Ngamugawi wirngarri, was found in the Kimberley region of northwestern Australia.It's now tropical, with landscapes ranging from mountains to grasslands ...

12) in the journal Nature Communications. Coelacanths are large fish that evolved 410 million years ago. Once known only from fossils, they were thought to be extinct until a fisher in South ...

An ancient coelacanth—the type of fish deemed a ‘living fossil’ when it was discovered in 1938—may have evolved in concert with tectonic activity, according to a new paper. In the work ...