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

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

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 ...

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 ...

With the aid of the intracranial joint and other cranial muscles, the coelacanth usually swallows its prey whole. Its teeth are designed not so much to grab or slice fish but to prevent them from ...

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 ...

The coelacanth, a fish thought to have vanished 65 million years ago. Imagine the surprise when, in 1938, this so-called “extinct” fish was discovered alive and well off the coast of South Africa.

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 ...

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