The unexpected capture of a living coelacanth in the 1930s was 'the most sensational natural history discovery' of the century. In April 1939, New Zealand's Auckland Star proclaimed that the Loch Ness ...

Later, experiments conducted from a submersible confirmed that coelacanths can detect and respond to electrical fields in the water, strongly implicating the rostral organ for this role.

One of the most extraordinary examples? The coelacanth, a fish thought to have vanished 65 million years ago. Imagine the surprise when, in 1938, this so-called “extinct” fish was discovered ...

Few vertebrate species spark as much curiosity as the coelacanth, as much for the fascinating story of its discovery as for its status as a "living fossil." What's more, the only two living ...

Extraordinary fossil discoveries reveal an important link between plate tectonics and extreme evolutionary changes just like that of a well-preserved 'Devonian coelacanth' fish that was just ...

THE discovery of a, living crossopterygian fish ... to genera of the early Mesozoic era such as Undina than to the later coelacanths of the Macropoma type from the Upper Cretaceous.