To identify her find, Courtenay-Latimer engaged the help of JLB Smith, a fish expert and lecturer at Rhodes University in Makhanda (Grahamstown). When he received her letter in January, Smith was ...

IT was my privilege to carry out detailed investigations on the first Cœlacanth, and to have discovered what appears to be the area where those fishes still live.

For decades, the coelacanthexisted only in fossil records—until one turned up in a South African fishing net. It was 1938 ...

Researchers classify the coelacanth under the group Sarcopterygii, which include the earliest ancestors of amphibians, reptiles, and mammals.

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.

In a world where new species are constantly being discovered, some creatures remain hidden in the depths of the ocean, ...

Though she didn't know it straightaway, Courtenay-Latimer had rediscovered the coelacanth, which was assumed to have died out at the end of the Cretaceous period but somehow outlasted many of its ...