Scientists call them “living fossils,” creatures whose bodies resemble ancient ancestors recorded in stone. They’ve endured ...

A fascinating history: Coelacanths through the ages. More than 175 species of fossil coelacanth lived between the Lower Devonian period (419 to 411 million years ago) and the end of the Cretaceous ...

When the coelacanth was discovered in 1938 in South Africa’s coastal waters, it shocked scientists. This was a creature that was supposed to have gone extinct along with the dinosaurs. But here ...

Coelacanths—primitive, deep-sea fish once thought to have died out with the dinosaurs—have astonished scientists yet again.These six-foot-long “living fossils” can live up to a hundred ...

A species of coelacanth, a fish that dates back to before the dinosaurs, has been photographed in Indonesia for the first time. The Indonesian coelacanth (Latimeria menadoensis), once considered ...

Coelacanths, often termed “living fossils”, represent an extraordinary lineage of lobe‐finned fishes with a fossil record spanning from the Devonian to the present. Their evolutionary ...

Over the past 410 million years, more than 175 species of coelacanths have been discovered across the globe. During the Mesozoic Era, the age of dinosaurs, coelacanths diversified significantly ...

Dinosaur trackways are known from Barry and other sites nearby, showing that dinosaurs had walked across the warm lowlands. ... and a single coelacanth gular bone.

Scuba divers surveying deep-sea habitats in North Maluku found a coelacanth, an elusive deep-sea species, in a first-of-its-kind sighting. Photo from Blancpain Ocean Commitment Plunging into the ...

Scuba divers surveying deep-sea habitats in North Maluku found a coelacanth, an elusive deep-sea species, in a first-of-its-kind sighting. Photo from Blancpain Ocean Commitment Plunging into the ...