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 ...

Life on our home planet dates back to hundreds of millions of years before the arrival of the dinosaurs. Among the most ...

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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 ...

When a South African fisherman came across a coelacanth in his net in 1938, it was like finding a living dinosaur - a catch that sent shockwaves throughout the scientific community. Until then, the ...

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 ...

The team found a type of ancient lobe-finned fish (Sarcopterygii) from the depths of the ocean.

MANADO, Indonesia, May 21 (Reuters) - An Indonesian fisherman has caught a coelacanth, an ancient fish once thought to have become extinct at the time of the dinosaurs, a fishery expert said on Monday ...

A new study has rewritten a key chapter in the story of vertebrate evolution. Researchers from the University of São Paulo (USP) in Brazil and the Smithsonian Institution in the United States have ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. A a coelacanth, Latimeria chalumnae ...

New research has shed light on a mysterious and ancient fish, one that remains one of the world's rarest -- the Coelacanth. Researchers have removed Denmark's only specimen of this primordial fish ...