Researchers have uncovered dozens of long-misidentified coelacanth fossils in British museums, some overlooked for more than ...

British museum fossils, misidentified for over a century, are now known to be ancient coelacanth fish. This discovery dramatically increases the number of known specimens from the British Triassic ...

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 ...

Paleontologists in China have described a new species of the coelacanth genus Whiteia on the basis of two fossilized ...

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 ...

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Alice Clement receives funding from the Australian Research Council and is employed by Flinders University. John Long receives funding from The Australian Research Council and is employed by Flinders ...

New research sheds light on coelacanths’ capacity to maintain buoyancy deep underwater and hunt for food in a vertical posture. It is thought these abilities allow the fish to use less energy – ...

In a remarkable discovery off the rugged coastline of California, researchers have encountered a living coelacanth, a prehistoric fish once believed to have gone extinct alongside the dinosaurs 65 ...