Coelacanths, an ancient group of fishes once thought to be long extinct, made headlines in 1938 when one of their modern relatives was caught off the coast of South Africa. Now coelacanths are making ...

An ancient coelacanth—the type of fish deemed a ‘living fossil’ when it was discovered in 1938—may have evolved in concert with tectonic activity, according to a new paper. In the work—published today ...

An underwater species that was once believed to have gone extinct some 70 million years ago was recently spotted in what became a rare photoshoot for the fish. Researchers found the coelacanth, known ...

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The ancient coelacanth fish is one of the world's oldest and rarest living aquatic species, outliving even the fierce dinosaurs and other animals that have since become extinct. Now, a new study has ...

A 66 million-year-old fossilized lung from a previously unknown species of ancient fish, as large as a great white shark, has recently been uncovered in Morocco. Researchers believe the fish was a ...

A new species of killer coelacanth that stalked Triassic seas has been identified from museum fossils, researchers say. The coelacanth (pronounced SEE-la-kanth) is a type of primitive, slow-moving ...

Before the dinosaur age, the coelacanth — a hefty, mysterious fish that now breathes with its gills — sported a well-developed lung, a new study finds. This lung likely helped the fish survive in ...

A new ancient fish with a sharklike tail discovered in Canada was a fast-moving, aggressive predator, quite unlike its sluggish relatives today. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited ...

Various specimens of Africa's earliest coelacanth have been found in a 360-million-year-old fossil estuary near Grahamstown, in South Africa's Eastern Cape. More than 30 complete specimens of the new ...

(Edmonton) Coelacanths, an ancient group of fishes once thought to be long extinct, made headlines in 1938 when one of their modern relatives was caught off the coast of South Africa. Now coelacanths ...