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

Climate change and asteroids are linked with animal origin and extinction -- and plate tectonics also seems to play a key evolutionary role, 'groundbreaking' new fossil research reveals. The discovery ...

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

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

The coelacanth is an oddly-named lobe-fish that was thought to be extinct for more than 60 million years until it was ...

Researchers compare new coelacanth fossils to ones that came before and after and link evolutionary changes to tectonic ...

Coelacanths, once thought extinct, are deep-sea fish found off the coasts of southern Africa and Indonesia. Recent research revealed the best-preserved coelacanth fossil from northern Western ...

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

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

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