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 ...

What is a living fossil? Learn more about the living fossils among us and why this topic is highly debated among scientists.

New fossil fish species scales up evidence of Earth’s evolutionary march Are the world's oldest 'living fossil' coelacanths still evolving?

"The coelacanth, often mistakenly called a 'living fossil' or 'dinosaur fish' had been known from fossils dated back to more than 400 million years – way before dinosaurs – and was thought to ...

This male fish was caught off the Comoro Islands, near the Island of Madagascar. It was believed that the coelacanth was extinct until 1938 when the first live one was caught. Before that time the ...

The BBC and the Taiwanese public broadcaster PTS have acquired NHK’s documentary Deep Ocean: Kingdom of the Coelacanth.. The 52-minute documentary, produced with ZDF/ARTE and OceanX in ...

While the teeth and bones of the fossil were relatively “poorly preserved,” outlines of multiple fins allowed researchers to identify the prehistoric fish as a species new to science.

A new species of prehistoric fish was found in iron-rich stone in southeastern Australia. Screengrab from Australia Museum's video What can fossils tell us about prehistoric life? The length of a ...

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 includes ...

A species of coelacanth, a fish that dates back to before the dinosaurs, has been photographed in Indonesia for the first time. Chappuis overcame the challenge of deep mixed-gas diving, which has ...