The coelacanth — a giant weird fish still around from dinosaur times — can live for 100 years, a new study found. These slow-moving, people-sized fish of the deep, nicknamed a “living fossil,” are the ...

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 ...

The coelacanth — a giant weird fish still around from dinosaur times — can live for 100 years, a new study found. These slow-moving, people-sized fish of the deep, nicknamed a “living fossil,” are the ...

Picture yourself dragging in your fishing net after a day at sea, only to catch a glimpse of a strange creature staring back at you, a creature that looks as if it just swam out of a fossil from the ...

Scuba divers surveying deep-sea habitats in North Maluku found a coelacanth, an elusive deep-sea species, in a first-of-its-kind sighting. Photo from Blancpain Ocean Commitment Plunging into the ...

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Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer, a self-trained South African naturalist who in 1938 discovered a live coelacanth, a species of bony, four-finned fish thought to have been extinct and often described since ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American The famous “living fossil” known as the West ...

Learn how fossils and high-resolution imaging revealed that some Triassic fish may have used a lung-like organ to detect ...