How did ancient fish perceive their environment in the deep sea? An international team led by scientists from the Natural ...

In A Nutshell Scientists found evidence that ancient coelacanths may have used their bony lungs to detect sound vibrations ...

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 ...

A species of coelacanth, a fish that dates back to before the dinosaurs, has been photographed in Indonesia for the first time. Chappuis overcame the challenge of deep mixed-gas diving, which has led ...

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 ...

Picture yourself dragging in your fishing net after a day at sea, only to catch a glimpse of a strange creature staring back at you, a creature that looks as if it just swam out of a fossil from the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...