Previously known only from fossils of primitive fishes, this joint allows the coelacanth to open its mouth especially wide in order to swallow fish and other prey. A pair of powerful muscles—the ...

It's not every day that a living fossil shows up in a fisherman's net ... Courtenay-Latimer had rediscovered the coelacanth, which was assumed to have died out at the end of the Cretaceous ...

Among living fossil fish, the coelacanth is the most famous, but there are many others. Perhaps even more than other kinds of living fossils, these ancient fish, whose kind have swum the seas for ...

Coelacanths were first described by Louis Agassiz in 1836 from a 260-million-year-old fossilised fish tail. He named the genus Coelacanthus. Many more fossil coelacanths have been found since, ranging ...

Some lobefins are still around today, such as the famous "living fossil" fish, the coelacanth. A fossil creature from the Devonian discovered more recently has been hailed as a vital link between ...

Devonian armoured fossil fish, Bothriolepis canadensis, from Quebec Macropoma lewesiensis one of the last coelacanth fishes lived in the clear water chalk seas of southern England 85 mya, and grew to ...

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 ...

Much like the dinosaurs of Jurassic Park, the coelacanth captured the imagination of people across the world. It has been given all manner of nicknames - "living fossil," "fossil fish," "dinofish," ...