Our research, recently published in the journal Nature Communications, identifies and describes the fossils of a 380-million-year-old extinct species of coelacanth that was discovered in Western ...

Some have left tantalizing clues, credible witnesses have spotted others, and a few might just be hiding in plain sight, waiting to surprise us just like the coelacanth (presumed extinct for 66 ...

The fish was a coelacanth, one of a group that was thought to have gone extinct 70 million years earlier. But this one was alive. An unusual fish On 22 December 1938, Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer, ...

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 ...

in the 1930s. Coelacanths are part of an ancient lineage of lobe-finned fish that date back more than 400 million years. Their evolutionary design has been highly successful in various aquatic ...

sits a container with two coelacanths preserved in alcohol. Not too long ago, scientists believed the fish had gone extinct millions of years ago. Produced by Kevin Reilly. Additional camera by ...

"With this new information we will be better able to assess it." The coelacanth was long thought to have gone extinct until famously turning up in a fishing net off South Africa in 1938.