Coelacanths are deep-sea fish that live off the coasts of southern Africa and Indonesia and can reach up to two metres in length. For a long time, scientists believed they were extinct. In new ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American It was supposed to be extinct. Yet here it ...

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 ...

Coelacanths are deep-sea fish up to two metres in length which were believed to have been extinct. Coelacanths are deep-sea fish that live off the coasts of southern Africa and Indonesia and can reach ...

The South African fisherman who pulled a prehistoric-looking blue creature out of his net in 1938 had unwittingly snagged one of the zoological finds of the century: a 1.5-metre-long coelacanth, a ...

Researchers discovered the fossilized lung of a massive coelacanth The fossil was discovered while identifying a possible part of a pterodactyl skull The discovery points to the last record of the ...

An international team of researchers has decoded the genome of a creature whose evolutionary history is both enigmatic and illuminating: the African coelacanth. A sea-cave dwelling, five-foot long ...

Learn how fossils and high-resolution imaging revealed that some Triassic fish may have used a lung-like organ to detect sound underwater — and what that suggests about early vertebrate senses. More ...