Coelacanth - Wikipedia
Coelacanths (/ ˈ s iː l ə k æ n θ / ⓘ SEE-lə-kanth) (order Coelacanthiformes) are an ancient group of lobe-finned fish (Sarcopterygii) in the class Actinistia. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] As sarcopterygians, they are more closely related to lungfish and tetrapods (which includes amphibians , reptiles , birds and mammals ) than to ray-finned fish .
Giant ancient fish that likely preyed on humans' ancestors …
2023年2月22日 · About 350 million years ago, long before the dinosaurs stalked the planet, a gigantic fish with deadly fangs hunted river waters on the ancient southern supercontinent Gondwana, a new study...
The Coelacanth, The Gigantic Prehistoric Fish That's Still Alive Today
2021年12月18日 · The massive coelacanth was thought to have died off over 60-million-years ago, but its 1938 discovery in South Africa shocked the scientific world. Scientists have long known that coelacanths once swam Earth’s seas. Fossilized remains helped experts date the supposedly extinct fish species back 66 million years, to the Late Cretaceous period.
Coelacanth | Smithsonian Ocean
Experts largely agree that coelacanths are primitive osteichthyans or bony fishes (as opposed to a cartilaginous fishes, such as sharks and rays), and that their closest living relatives are the primitive lungfishes (known from freshwaters of South Africa, Australia and South America), but they disagree on the exact placement of the coelacanth ...
Meet The World’s Oldest Fish—Presumed Extinct For 60 ... - Forbes
2024年9月12日 · 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.
African Coelacanth - NOAA Fisheries
2024年11月19日 · Learn about the status and management of this ancient fish. The African coelacanth belongs to an ancient lineage of bony, lobe-finned fish. The species was believed to have gone extinct over 65 million years ago but was …
Coelacanths - National Geographic
There are only two known species of coelacanths: one that lives near the Comoros Islands off the east coast of Africa, and one found in the waters off Sulawesi, Indonesia. Many scientists...
Coelacanths: the fish that 'outdid' the Loch Ness Monster
Making up for the world's disappointment that there wasn't a prehistoric creature living in a Scottish loch was the South African discovery of a strange, steel blue fish with limb-like fins. The fish was a coelacanth, one of a group that was thought to …
Old fish makes new splash: Coelacanth find rewrites history of …
2012年5月2日 · Coelacanths, an ancient group of fishes once thought to be long extinct, made headlines in 1938 when one of their modern relatives was caught off the coast of South Africa. Now...
Coelacanth, Latimeria chalumnae Smith, 1939 - Australian …
A few days before Christmas in 1938, a Coelacanth was caught at the mouth of the Chalumna River on the east coast of South Africa. The fish was caught in a shark gill net by Captain Goosen and his crew, who had no idea of the significance of their find.