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 ...

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 ...

The ancient coelacanth, a lobe-finned fish, is a “living fossil” in every sense of the term. Biologists believe this supreme ...