The coelacanth is ovoviviparous, meaning that eggs are fertilized internally and are retained in the mother's oviduct so that the young are born alive. Pups—26 were found in one mother—develop ...

Still elusive but not extinct yet! It isn’t a record of animals believed extinct but found alive without the infamous ...

The fish was a coelacanth, one of a group that was thought to have gone extinct 70 million years earlier. But this one was alive. An unusual fish On 22 December 1938, Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer, ...

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 ...

Coelacanths are difficult to classify. They have many characteristics in common with sharks, and yet in certain characteristics they more closely resemble other types of fish. In this activity ...