Coelacanths are some of the strangest fish that swim the world's oceans. These wonderfully ugly fish have remained almost ...

Coelacanths once thought to be extinct, have resurfaced in the modern world. Recently, researchers have uncovered the most ...

It's not every day that a living fossil shows up ... otherwise ordinary haul of fish. Though she didn't know it straightaway, Courtenay-Latimer had rediscovered the coelacanth, which was assumed ...

Previously known only from fossils of primitive fishes, this joint allows the coelacanth to open its mouth especially wide in order to swallow fish and other prey. A pair of powerful muscles—the ...

The unexpected capture of a living coelacanth in the 1930s was 'the most sensational natural history discovery' of the century. In April 1939, New Zealand's Auckland Star proclaimed that the Loch Ness ...

Scientists assumed for generations that the coelacanth became extinct. The ancient fish, that was 400 million years old, was supposed to have died 65 million years ago. That feeling ended in 1938 ...

Devonian armoured fossil fish, Bothriolepis canadensis, from Quebec Macropoma lewesiensis one of the last coelacanth fishes lived in the clear water chalk seas of southern England 85 mya, and grew to ...