A team of scientists has unveiled a new species of coelacanth, a rare fish often referred to as a ‘living fossil.’ This ...

Thanks to a particle accelerator, a scientific team has identified a new species of these fish considered as "living fossils.

The fish was a coelacanth, one of a group that was thought to have gone extinct 70 million years earlier. But this one was alive. An unusual fish On 22 December 1938, Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer, ...

Among living fossil fish, the coelacanth is the most famous, but there are many others. Perhaps even more than other kinds of living fossils, these ancient fish, whose kind have swum the seas for ...

With the aid of the intracranial joint and other cranial muscles, the coelacanth usually swallows its prey whole. Its teeth are designed not so much to grab or slice fish but to prevent them from ...

IN my review of Prof. J. L. B. Smith's account of the existing Coelacanth fish, Latimeria (NATURE, July 13, 1940, p. 53), I remarked that the fins appeared to agree with those of the fossil ...

amid an otherwise ordinary haul of fish. Though she didn't know it straightaway, Courtenay-Latimer had rediscovered the coelacanth, which was assumed to have died out at the end of the Cretaceous ...

Staff at the National Museum of Kenya display a coelacanth caught in 2001 A "fossil" fish can live for an impressively long time - perhaps for up to a century, according to a new study.

An curved arrow pointing right. In the basement of the American Museum of Natural History in New York City, sits a container with two coelacanths preserved in alcohol. Not too long ago, scientists ...

This ancient fish was once thought to have died out 65 million years ago, until it was rediscovered ... [+] in the 1930s. Coelacanths are part of an ancient lineage of lobe-finned fish that date ...

Scientists have discovered a fossil of a new species of Coelacanth fish in the Swiss Alps. A team of paleontologists found it on a pass near the mountain resort of Davos in southeastern ...

The discovery of a living coelacanth fish rocked the world in 1939, as scientists thought they had died out with the dinosaurs. A new study illuminates how its skull and tiny brain develop.