This story appears in the March 2011 issue of National Geographic magazine ... Courtenay-Latimer had rediscovered the coelacanth, which was assumed to have died out at the end of the Cretaceous ...

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Coelacanths are sometimes called a Lazarus taxon, named for the Biblical Lazarus who was raised from the dead. These are organisms that reappear after a long period of seemingly being extinct. There ...

Later, experiments conducted from a submersible confirmed that coelacanths can detect and respond to electrical fields in the water, strongly implicating the rostral organ for this role.

Paleontologists recently discovered a new extinct coelacanth species that highlights the role that Earth’s plate tectonics plays in evolution. Also called Latimeria, coelacanths are a deep-sea fish ...

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The ancient coelacanth, a lobe-finned fish, is a “living fossil” in every sense of the term. ... [+] Biologists believe this supreme survivor has undergone little change in 400 million years.