Dinosaurs ruled the planet between 230 to 66 million years ago, although many other life forms had evolved well before their ...

What it eats: A variety of fish and cephalopods, including squid and cuttlefish. Head of a preserved Coelacanth specimen. Why it's awesome: Scientists thought all coelacanths went extinct over 65 ...

Museum fossils in England reveal 200-million-year-old coelacanths, fish that swam alongside the first dinosaurs ...

A sudden splash pierces the silent ocean depths. Divers' lights pierce the murk, revealing a coelacanth—its lobed fins ...

smerikal Colacans, also known as “living fossils,” is a precious fish that continues to have the same old form as fossil species. Coelacanth is considered to be closely related to human beings and ...

NEW YORK Scientists have decoded the DNA of a celebrated "living fossil" fish, gaining new insights into how today's mammals, amphibians, reptiles and birds evolved from a fish ancestor. The African ...

An international team of researchers has decoded the genome of the African coelacanth. The species was once thought to be extinct, but a living coelacanth was discovered off the African coast in 1938.

They’re big, they’re furtive, they’re weird-looking. You almost certainly wouldn’t want to dine on one, since they’re endangered and are said to cause digestive distress in people who eat them. But ...

The coelacanth was discovered in 1938, but scientists already knew what the organism looked like. It's the lone representative of a lineage that we knew from fossils, the last of which were preserved ...