The ancient coelacanth, a lobe-finned fish, is a “living fossil” in every sense of the term. ... [+] Biologists believe this supreme survivor has undergone little change in 400 million years.

Coelacanths are deep-sea fish that live off the coasts of southern Africa and Indonesia and can reach up to two metres in length. For a long time, scientists believed they were extinct.

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Researchers have discovered a well-preserved Devonian coelacanth fish in Western Australia, shedding light on the connection between plate tectonics and evolutionary changes. Named 'Ngamugawi ...

Contemporary coelacanths are often described as living fossils. Superficially, that may be true. But new evidence now makes that nickname less valid. The two species of the large-boned lungfish alive ...

The newly identified species of coelacanth, Ngamugawi wirngarri, was found in the Kimberley region of northwestern Australia.It's now tropical, with landscapes ranging from mountains to grasslands ...

An ancient coelacanth—the type of fish deemed a ‘living fossil’ when it was discovered in 1938—may have evolved in concert with tectonic activity, according to a new paper. In the work ...

This newly discovered fossil coelacanth species is filling in some major evolutionary gaps.CREDIT: Clement et al. 2024. Flinders University It has since been touted as virtually unchanged, but the ...