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, ...

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 ...

IN my review of Prof. J. L. B. Smith's account of the existing Coelacanth fish, Latimeria (NATURE, July 13, 1940, p. 53), I remarked that the fins appeared to agree with those of the fossil ...

"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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...