Have you ever gazed into a dazzling aquarium or watched a wild river teeming with life and thought, “Look at all those fish!” ...

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, ...

Our planet’s first known mass extinction happened about 440 million years ago. Species diversity on Earth had been increasing over a period of roughly 30 million years, but that would come to a halt ...

With the aid of the intracranial joint and other cranial muscles, the coelacanth usually swallows its prey whole. Its teeth are designed not so much to grab or slice fish but to prevent them from ...

The fish, he confirmed, was a living coelacanth—a species believed to have gone extinct 60 million years earlier. Before its rediscovery, scientists had regarded the coelacanth as a fossil relic ...

amid an otherwise ordinary haul of fish. Though she didn't know it straightaway, Courtenay-Latimer had rediscovered the coelacanth, which was assumed to have died out at the end of the Cretaceous ...

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 ...

Scientists assumed for generations that the coelacanth became extinct. The ancient fish, that was 400 million years old, was supposed to have died 65 million years ago. That feeling ended in 1938 ...

One of the most extraordinary examples? The coelacanth, a fish thought to have vanished 65 million years ago. Imagine the surprise when, in 1938, this so-called “extinct” fish was discovered ...

via Wikimedia Commons This fish normally lives close to the seabed, in the relatively shallow waters nearer the coast. It is highly sensitive to vibrations in the water that could be made by prey such ...

An curved arrow pointing right. In the basement of the American Museum of Natural History in New York City, sits a container with two coelacanths preserved in alcohol. Not too long ago, scientists ...