Researchers Unearth 420-Million-Year-Old ‘Living Fossil’ Fish Species, Helped Them to Connect Human Evolution Analysis of 420 ...

It's not every day that a living fossil shows up in a fisherman's net ... Courtenay-Latimer had rediscovered the coelacanth, which was assumed to have died out at the end of the Cretaceous ...

Coelacanths were first described by Louis Agassiz in 1836 from a 260-million-year-old fossilised fish tail. He named the genus Coelacanthus. Many more fossil coelacanths have been found since, ranging ...

Previously known only from fossils of primitive fishes, this joint allows the coelacanth to open its mouth especially wide in order to swallow fish and other prey. A pair of powerful muscles—the ...

Staff at the National Museum of Kenya display a coelacanth caught in 2001 A "fossil" fish can live for an impressively long time - perhaps for up to a century, according to a new study.

Discover 8 incredible animals that were once thought extinct but have made surprising comebacks, from the Majorcan Midwife ...

NHK and NHK Enterprises teamed up with ZDF/ARTE and OceanX for Deep Ocean: The Kingdom of the Coelacanth and succeeded in ...

Some lobefins are still around today, such as the famous "living fossil" fish, the coelacanth. A fossil creature from the Devonian discovered more recently has been hailed as a vital link between ...

Fishermen off South Africa pull up an ungainly five-foot fish identified as a coelacanth, a living fossil thought extinct since the days of the dinosaurs. British ship Challenger II bounces sound ...