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 ...

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

Climate change and asteroids are linked with animal origin and extinction -- and plate tectonics also seems to play a key evolutionary role, 'groundbreaking' new fossil research reveals. The discovery ...

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 ...

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