Million-Year-Old Giant Fish Remains Discovered in Australia, Experts Call It ‘Living Fossil' The coelacanth, often referred ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Later, experiments conducted from a submersible confirmed that coelacanths can detect and respond to electrical fields in the water, strongly implicating the rostral organ for this role.

"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.

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 ...

The discovery of a living coelacanth fish rocked the world in 1939, as scientists thought they had died out with the dinosaurs. A new study illuminates how its skull and tiny brain develop.