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12) in the journal Nature Communications. Coelacanths are large fish that evolved 410 million years ago. Once known only from fossils, they were thought to be extinct until a fisher in South Africa ...

From Ireland's last Great Auk to a fish thought to have been extinct for 70 million years — there's so much to discover in ...

A rare Triassic fossil site reveals North America's oldest known pterosaur, Eotephradactylus mcintireae, in what was once a rich ecosystem.

African Coelacanth (Latimeria Chalumnae) The African coelacanth belongs to a group of ancient fish thought to have gone extinct, along with non-bird dinosaurs, over 65 million years ago.

From Indonesia to Scotland, private yachts are helping scientists explore oceans in ways traditional research vessels can’t ...

A team of researchers led by the Smithsonian has discovered the oldest known pterosaur fossil in North America. Pterosaurs were flying reptiles that lived alongside dinosaurs and were the first ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) — A prehistoric fish that can grow up to 20 feet in length and is still found in the San Francisco Bay is seeing a steep decline in population across California, according ...

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.

After the 1982-1983 El Niño warming event, the coral endemic to the Galápagos Islands experienced sharp population declines ...

Half a billion years ago, a strange sea-dwelling creature called Mollisonia symmetrica may have paved the way for modern ...