A team of scientists has unveiled a new species of coelacanth, a rare fish often ... This characteristic could imply a different ecological niche or behavioral pattern, offering valuable clues ...

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 ...

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, ...

Among living fossil fish, the coelacanth is the most famous ... were also present in the earliest ray-finned fish and are different from those of other living fish, except gar.

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 ...