In 1939, Smith named the species Latimeria chalumnae, also known as gombessa. Since then, this species, found along the east ...

Million-Year-Old Giant Fish Remains Discovered in Australia, Experts Call It ‘Living Fossil' The coelacanth, often referred ...

For the past 85 years, the coelacanth has been dubbed a“living fossil” because it evokes a bygone era, the age of dinosaurs. These fish belong to the sarcopterygians, a group that also ...

What do the ginkgo (a tree), the nautilus (a mollusk) and the coelacanth (a fish) all have in common? They don't look alike, and they aren't biologically related, but part of their evolutionary ...

Last year, the Java stingaree became the first fish to be declared extinct as a result of human actions. Could there soon be others? In the bright coastal waters of Australia, Julia Constance has ...

A giant fish in Asia’s Mekong River that scientists believed to be extinct has been spotted three times after almost 20 years, according to a new study. The “ghost’ fish,” a large salmon ...

Could this be the “Mekong Ghost,” they asked - an elusive fish that hadn’t been seen since 2005 and was feared extinct? Photos of the fish and its telltale identifiers – an odd-shaped ...

Recent sightings of the “Mekong ghost” fish in Cambodia offer hope for a creature once presumed extinct. The giant salmon carp, so named because it resembles a large salmon, had not been ...

The Conversation What do the ginkgo (a tree), the nautilus (a mollusc) and the coelacanth (a fish) all have in common? They don’t look alike, and they aren’t biologically related, but part of their ...