On the morning of December 22nd, 1938, a young museum curator in East London, South Africa, found something on the deck of a ...

Learn how new technology revealed a long-forgotten museum specimen to be a missing link in coelacanth evolution.

A new species of coelacanth has been identified from a 150-year-old fossil housed at London's Natural History Museum. Former ...

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 ...

A fossil fish skull, Macropoma gombessae, that sat unnoticed in a London museum for nearly 140 years has now changed fish ...

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 ...

Scientists have documented rare cases where species thought extinct, known as 'Lazarus species,' reappear after decades or ...

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 ...

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 ...

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