Coelacanths are deep-sea fish that live off the coasts of southern Africa and Indonesia and can reach up to two meters in ...

The ancient coelacanth, which has existed for some 419 million years, never stopped evolving despite its reputation as a ...

Coelacanth fossils like these are useful because two known coelacanth species are still alive today. They are likened to ...

Researchers compare new coelacanth fossils to ones that came before and after and link evolutionary changes to tectonic ...

Climate change and asteroids are linked with animal origin and extinction—and plate tectonics also seems to play a key ...

The two fossil specimens, representing a single coelacanth, were collected during a 2008 expedition to what was once an ...

Are the world's oldest 'living fossil' coelacanths still evolving? Groundbreaking fossil research links plate tectonics with ...

The ancient coelacanth, a lobe-finned fish, is a “living fossil” in every sense of the term. Biologists believe this supreme ...

Ngamugawi wirngarri is a new species of coelacanth, an ancient fish species that has lived on Earth for over 400 million ...

Researchers have discovered a well-preserved Devonian coelacanth fish in Western Australia, shedding light on the connection ...