Though she didn't know it straightaway, Courtenay-Latimer had rediscovered the coelacanth ... Because of the depth of their habitat, they have mainly been photographed by submersibles and remotely ...

Later, experiments conducted from a submersible confirmed that coelacanths can detect and respond to electrical fields in the water, strongly implicating the rostral organ for this role.

There are two characteristics that Lazarus taxa tend to share: a limited geographic range and a habitat where fossils rarely form. In the past, coelacanths lived in a variety of habitats including ...

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 ...

12) in the journal Nature Communications. Coelacanths are large fish that evolved 410 million years ago. Once known only from fossils, they were thought to be extinct until a fisher in South ...