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

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

During construction, millions of fossils were found at a California high school, including megalodon teeth, extinct dolphins, ...

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

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

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

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

"For more than 35 years, we have found several perfectly preserved 3D fish fossils from Gogo sites which have yielded many significant discoveries, including mineralised soft tissues and the ...

Today, the living coelacanth Latimeria (Sarcopterygii: Actinistia) is an iconic, so-called ‘living fossil’ within one of the ...

Around 380 million years ago, the site was a tropical reef teeming with more than 50 species of fish. Ngamugawi wirngarri, the new fossil coelacanth, is the first fish found in the area to bear a ...

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