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 ...

If you look back far enough, humans evolved from fish. Anyone doubting this aspect of our ancestry must contend with a growing wealth of DNA evidence. Among the fish living today, we share a ...

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 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 ...

On the morning of December 22nd, 1938, a young museum curator in East London, South Africa, found something on the deck of a fishing trawler that she didn’t believe still existed. Among a pile of ...

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 ...

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,” are the ...

Learn how new technology revealed a long-forgotten museum specimen to be a missing link in coelacanth evolution.

WASHINGTON — 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 ...