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 ...

Paleontologists recently discovered a new extinct coelacanth species that highlights the role that Earth’s plate tectonics plays in evolution. Also called Latimeria, coelacanths are a deep-sea fish ...

A type of fish known as a 'living fossil' has hardly changed biologically in around 300 million years. The African coelacanth has effectively been frozen in time since before dinosaurs evolved.

Coelacanths are humungous, ancient fish that were first discovered in 1938. But they are rare and at one point they were thought to be extinct. Now researchers have found that these massive fish may ...

The coelacanth uses its gills to extract oxygen from water just like all other fishes that exist today but millions of years ago prior to the age of the dinosaur, the ancestors of this so-called ...

DEERFIELD, Ill., May 3 (UPI) -- An ancestor of coelacanths, "living fossil" fish thought extinct until a live one was caught in 1938 off South Africa, has been identified, paleontologists say. Unlike ...

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 the genome of the coelacanth, a prehistoric ...

A deep-sea fish which became known as a “living fossil” has not changed in appearance since before the time of the dinosaurs with the help of an extraordinary genome that is barely evolving, a study ...

They’re big, they’re furtive, they’re weird-looking. You almost certainly wouldn’t want to dine on one, since they’re endangered and are said to cause digestive distress in people who eat them. But ...