Making up for the world's disappointment that there wasn't a prehistoric creature living in a Scottish loch was the South African discovery of a strange, steel blue fish with limb-like fins. The fish ...

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 ...

Projecting from the body on stalks rather than attaching directly to the body, these fishes' paired lobe fins are supported by the same basic bones as your arms and legs. Coelacanths even move ...

Coelacanths are difficult to classify ... enables quick bursts of speed to escape predators. Fins: Help a fish move. The top fins are called dorsal fins. If there are two dorsal fins, the one ...

unusual fins, and an extra lobe on its tail, amid an otherwise ordinary haul of fish. Though she didn't know it straightaway, Courtenay-Latimer had rediscovered the coelacanth, which was assumed ...