Coelacanths—primitive, deep-sea fish once thought to have died out with the dinosaurs—have astonished scientists yet again.These six-foot-long “living fossils” can live up to a hundred ...

What is a living fossil? Learn more about the living fossils among us and why this topic is highly debated among scientists.

Primeval fish that were thought to be "living fossils," largely unchanged since the time of the dinosaurs, are actually evolving dramatically — and they evolved faster when Earth's continents moved ...

In 1998, a second living species of coelacanth, Latimeria menadoensis (named ikan raja laut, the king fish of the sea, in Indonesian), was discovered off the island of Sulawesi, in Indonesia.

A species of coelacanth, a fish that dates back to before the dinosaurs, has been photographed in Indonesia for the first time. The Indonesian coelacanth (Latimeria menadoensis), once considered ...

The coelacanth — a giant weird fish still around from dinosaur times — can live for 100 years, a new study found. These slow-moving, people-sized fish of the deep, nicknamed a “living fossil ...

Today, the coelacanth is a fascinating deep-sea fish that lives off the coasts of eastern Africa and Indonesia and can reach up to 2m in length. They are "lobe-finned" fish, ...

This male fish was caught off the Comoro Islands, ... Interior view, Division of Fishes exhibit case in the Museum of Natural History, featuring a cast of a coelacanth fish. Cite as Smithsonian ...

Both times, divers found the fish about 460 feet down and observed it for five to eight minutes. The coelacanth seen by scuba divers in North Maluku. Photo from Alexis Chappuis via Blancpain Ocean ...

The discovery of a living coelacanth fish rocked the world in 1939, as scientists thought they had died out with the dinosaurs. A new study illuminates how its skull and tiny brain develop.

Today, the coelacanth is a fascinating deep-sea fish that lives off the coasts of eastern Africa and Indonesia and can reach up to 2m in length. They are "lobe-finned" fish, ...

Both times, divers found the fish about 460 feet down and observed it for five to eight minutes. The coelacanth seen by scuba divers in North Maluku. Photo from Alexis Chappuis via Blancpain Ocean ...