the first living coelacanth ever observed. In 1939, Smith named the species Latimeria chalumnae, also known as gombessa. Since then, this species, found along the east coast of Africa near the ...

There's an under-explored world in the ocean, where new discoveries are made each year; even an entire continent that was missing for almost 400 years has recently been rediscovered.

the first living coelacanth ever observed. In 1939, Smith named the species Latimeria chalumnae, also known as gombessa. Since then, this species, found along the east coast of Africa near the ...

For almost a century, coelacanths were thought to have become extinct at the end of the Cretaceous period, around 66 million years ago. During this time nearly 75 per cent of life on Earth became ...

A fishing boat found a Russian whale watcher who had been drifting at sea for more than two months, with the bodies of his two deceased companions tied to his raft.

Scientists have captured the first ever pictures of baby ‘living fossil' coelacanths. Japanese marine researchers have found and successfully filmed the young fish at a depth of 528ft in Manado Bay ...

Scientists have found two more rare Coelacanths living in waters off South Africa. The Coelacanth (pronounced see-lah-kanth), Latimeria chalumnae, is an ancient species once believed to be extinct. It ...

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