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 ...

If you look back far enough, humans evolved from fish. Anyone doubting this aspect of our ancestry must contend with a growing wealth of DNA evidence. Among the fish living today, we share a ...

What it eats: A variety of fish and cephalopods, including squid and cuttlefish. Head of a preserved Coelacanth specimen. Why it's awesome: Scientists thought all coelacanths went extinct over 65 ...

A species of coelacanth, a fish that dates back to before the dinosaurs, has been photographed in Indonesia for the first time. Chappuis overcame the challenge of deep mixed-gas diving, which has led ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... In the hope of reconstructing a pivotal step in evolution — the colonization of land by fish that learned to walk and breathe air — researchers have decoded ...

NEW YORK Scientists have decoded the DNA of a celebrated "living fossil" fish, gaining new insights into how today's mammals, amphibians, reptiles and birds evolved from a fish ancestor. The African ...

The ancient coelacanth fish is one of the world's oldest and rarest living aquatic species, outliving even the fierce dinosaurs and other animals that have since become extinct. Now, a new study has ...

The coelacanth isn't called a "living fossil" for nothing. The 2-meter-long, 90 kg fish was thought to have gone extinct 70 million years ago—until a fisherman caught one in 1938—and the animal looks ...