Ngamugawi Wirngarri', the newly discovered Coelacanth is an extinct form of species that fills a really important gap between the primitive Coelacanth forms and 'anatomically modern ones.' Dr Alice ...

The earth has gone through many cycles of extinction, but these eight candidates may be extinct creatures that are actually still alive.

Coelacanths are strange fish that are currently only known from two species found along the East African coast and in ...

Coelacanths are rare, elusive, ancient lobe-finned fish species, residing in poorly accessible tropical marine caves and requiring close monitoring and protection. Environmental DNA (eDNA) approaches ...

The fossil has been identified as a new silesaurid, an extinct group of reptiles. Paleontologists debate whether silesaurids were true dinosaurs or possibly a precursor to the creatures that once ...

A 12-million-year-old fossil of a prehistoric "terror bird" discovered in South America might represent the largest known member of its kind found to date, a study ...

A report by Dr. Alexander Farnsworth, a Senior Research Associate at the University of Bristol, predicts humans and mammals may face extinction millions of years from now due to extreme climate ...

Gigantopithecus lower jaw (cast) from the Cenozoic of eastern Asia. Public display, Cleveland Museum of Natural History, Cleveland, Ohio, USA. James St. John, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons Long ...

CALI, Colombia — The United Nations, scientists and governments made an urgent call Wednesday for increased funding to protect coral reefs under threat of extinction. Research this year shows ...

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 ...