Once thought to be extinct, lobe-finned coelacanths are enormous fish that live deep in the ocean. Now, researchers reporting in the journal Current Biology on June 17 have evidence that, in addition ...

Before the dinosaur age, the coelacanth — a hefty, mysterious fish that now breathes with its gills — sported a well-developed lung, a new study finds. This lung likely helped the fish survive in ...

A fish swims in the deep ocean called the coelacanth with odd lobe-shaped fins that grows to extremely large proportions. Coelacanths can reach lengths of up to six feet and weigh about 200 pounds, ...

A shadowy figure lurks beneath the blue ocean pixels in Animal Crossing: New Horizons. Your avatar throws out their fishing rod — hoping to snag the beast — but after a brief tug, it swims out of ...

The coelacanth — a wondrous fish that was thought to have gone extinct along with the dinosaurs 66 million years ago before unexpectedly being found alive and well in 1938 off SA's east coast — is ...

Coelacanths, an ancient group of fishes once thought to be long extinct, made headlines in 1938 when one of their modern relatives was caught off the coast of South Africa. Now coelacanths are making ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Robyn Williams: John Long's paper, just published in Nature, is about a living fossil, a fish of legend ...

They evaded humans for millions of years and live very private lives. The hulking, fleshy-finned fish known as the coelacanth has beguiled scientists for generations. But the coelacanth mystique that ...

Coelacanth off Pumula on the KwaZulu-Natal South Coast, South Africa, in November 2019. (Bruce A.S. Henderson, Michael D. Frazer, et al. / South African Journal of Science) (CN) --- New research about ...