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

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 ...

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

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

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

For paleontologists who study animals that lived long ago, fossilized remains tell only part of the story of an animal's life ...

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

A study of a bizarre prehistoric bird's fossilized remains has uncovered fascinating new details regarding its behavior. Living around 120 million years ago, the species, Longipteryx chaoyangensis, is ...

“ Longipteryx is one of my favorite fossil birds, because it’s just so weird—it has this long skull, and teeth only at the ...