Lobe-finned fishes like coelacanths are more closely related to tetrapods than to ray-finned fishes (Actinopterygii), which make up about 99% of the known fish species. Tetrapods include birds, ...

Yet such a rudimentary brain has clearly done nothing to hinder the species' long-term survival. Previously known only from fossils of primitive fishes, this joint allows the coelacanth to open ...

Analysis of 420-million-year-old Coelacanths fossils in Western Australia has provided some unique insights about the species as well as its connection with humans. As per researchers, these ...

The African coelacanth, a rare species that’s stayed much the same for the last 400 million years, has a lifespan of about 100 years, around five times longer than previously thought, according to a ...

However, it is now being discovered in fossil finds that tectonics too, have a role in species evolution. Ancient primitive 'Devonian coelacanth' fish were recently brought to the surface in the ...