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 ...

Coelacanths are fish of which there are only two current species and which, with a few exceptions, evolved slowly over more than 400 million years. The fossils studied by the international team ...

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 ...