Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A deep diver about a meter behind the coelacanth discovered at a depth of -144 m in North Maluku, Indonesia. Photo: Creative ...

Every year, species disappear forever. But sometimes, nature delivers an astonishing surprise. Across remote islands, deep ...

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 ...

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 ...

Researchers discovered the fossilized lung of a massive coelacanth The fossil was discovered while identifying a possible part of a pterodactyl skull The discovery points to the last record of 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 was discovered in 1938, but scientists already knew what the organism looked like. It’s the lone representative of a lineage that we knew from fossils, the last of which were preserved ...

African coelacanths are very old. Fossil evidence dates their genesis to around 400 million years ago, and scientists thought they were extinct until 1938, when museum curator Marjorie ...

Rare footage of the Indonesian coelacanth off the island of North Maluku at its preferred ocean depth may help scientists better understand this ancient fish and the urgent need to protect it. A diver ...

At the time of capture, the Smithsonian's coelacanth specimen weighed about 160 pounds and measured a little less than five and a half feet long. Sandra J. Raredon, NMNH, division of fishes Until 1938 ...