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

The coelacanth, a 400-million-year-old ancient fish, was assumed to be extinct until its rediscovery in 1938, revealing the ...

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

Some creatures have remained unchanged for millions of years, surviving drastic climate shifts and evolution. Meet 10 living ...

Among living fossil fish, the coelacanth is the most famous, but there are many others. Perhaps even more than other kinds of living fossils, these ancient fish, whose kind have swum the seas for ...

Some lobefins are still around today, such as the famous "living fossil" fish, the coelacanth. A fossil creature from the Devonian discovered more recently has been hailed as a vital link between ...

In an Australian first, researchers have described a new species of 15-million-year-old fossilized freshwater fish, ...

Fishermen off South Africa pull up an ungainly five-foot fish identified as a coelacanth, a living fossil thought extinct since the days of the dinosaurs. British ship Challenger II bounces sound ...