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 ...

Thanks to a particle accelerator, a scientific team has identified a new species of these fish considered as "living fossils.

A team of scientists has unveiled a new species of coelacanth, a rare fish often referred to as a ‘living fossil.’ This groundbreaking discovery was made possible by the use of the European ...

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 ...

Coelacanths are strange fish that are currently only known from two species found along the East African coast and in Indonesia. A team from the Natural History Museum (MHNG) and the University of ...

With the aid of the intracranial joint and other cranial muscles, the coelacanth usually swallows its prey whole. Its teeth are designed not so much to grab or slice fish but to prevent them from ...

amid an otherwise ordinary haul of fish. 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 ...

Like the coelacanth, this fish was previously thought to be extinct, because it was known only from fossilized Devonian-Era remains almost 450 million years old. The "lungs" of the lungfish are ...

They believe the fish reproduces only in late middle ... 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 ...

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 ...