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 ...

The ancient coelacanth, a lobe-finned fish, is a “living fossil” in every sense of the term. Biologists believe this supreme survivor has undergone little change in 400 million years. Here’s its story ...

The coelacanth species dates back 420 million years and was thought to have gone extinct with dinosaurs A rare fish species believed to have gone extinct with dinosaurs millions of years ago has ...

Rare footage of the Indonesian coelacanth off the island of North Maluku at its preferred ocean depth may help scientists better understand this ancient fish and the urgent need to protect it. A diver ...

Dinosaurs ruled the planet between 230 to 66 million years ago, although many other life forms had evolved well before their existence. Moreover, some of these living creatures still exist today.

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.

The capture of the first living Coelacanth, a mighty ocean predator, off the coast of South Africa caused quite a stir in 1938, 65 million years after its supposed extinction. It became known as a ...

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 ...