Museum fossils in England reveal 200-million-year-old coelacanths, fish that swam alongside the first dinosaurs ...

The discovery of a living coelacanth specimen in 1938 was remarkable, as this lineage of lobe-finned fish was thought to have become extinct 70 million years ago. The modern coelacanth looks ...

An underwater species that was once believed to have gone extinct some 70 million years ago was recently spotted in what became a rare photoshoot for the fish. Researchers found the coelacanth, known ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Robyn Williams: John Long's paper, just published in Nature, is about a living fossil, a fish of legend ...

Richard Cloutier is also a Research Associate at the Centre of Excellence in Basin Studies and Applied Palaeontology, Mahasarakham University (Thailand). He has received funding from the Natural ...

The coelacanth (pronounced SEEL-uh-kanth) is an enormous, bottom-dwelling fish that is unlike other living fishes in a number of ways. They belong to an ancient lineage that has been around for more ...

Coelacanth: The ‘Living Fossil’ That Defied Extinction for Millions of Years (Image: Canva) Scientists assumed for generations that the coelacanth became extinct. The ancient fish, that was 400 ...

Hugo Dutel receives funding from the Natural Environment Research Council (NE/P013090/1). John Long receives funding from The Australian Research Council University of Bristol provides funding as a ...