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

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

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 ...

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

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

Are the world's oldest 'living fossil' coelacanths still evolving? Groundbreaking fossil research links plate tectonics with ...

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

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