For decades, the coelacanthexisted only in fossil records—until one turned up in a South African fishing net. It was 1938 ...

In a world where new species are constantly being discovered, some creatures remain hidden in the depths of the ocean, ...

Researchers classify the coelacanth under the group Sarcopterygii, which include the earliest ancestors of amphibians, reptiles, and mammals.

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 ...

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 ...

Tiny structures and soft tissue features are so well preserved in the fossil, scientists could see what colour the fish was when it was alive. The discovery provides evolutionary clues for the ...

A tiny Siberian fish fossil that’s a whopping 415 million years old may be part of a group of fish that was ancestor to all the jawed vertebrates living today. Described online in the journal ...