When a South African fisherman came across a coelacanth in his net in 1938, it was like finding a living dinosaur - a catch that sent shockwaves throughout the scientific community. Until then, the ...

To compare and classify a "living fossil," the coelacanth, in relation to a moray eel and a bull shark. Review with students the meaning of the phrase "living fossil" (an organism with a basic body ...

In the winter of 1938, a strange fish was scooped up by a trawl dragging along the muddy bottom of the Indian Ocean, near the mouth of the Chaulumna River off the coast of southern Africa. Although ...

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 ...

A 66 million-year-old fossilized lung from a previously unknown species of ancient fish, as large as a great white shark, has recently been uncovered in Morocco. Researchers believe the fish was a ...

Hans Fricke may not be a familiar name to you. His voice was never auto tuned into a pop hit, he did not make a list of the top ten running backs of all time, and you will not see his fashion ...

Fossilised remains of a fish that grew as big as a great white shark have been discovered after a fossil collector mistook them for a giant flying reptile. The find by scientists from the University ...

A fossil discovered in Texas is a new species of coelacanth fish. Paleontologists identified the skull as a 100 million-year-old coelacanth, making it the youngest discovered in Texas. The new species ...

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 ...

New research has shed light on a mysterious and ancient fish, one that remains one of the world's rarest -- the Coelacanth. Researchers have removed Denmark's only specimen of this primordial fish ...