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 ...

The coelacanth is known as a “living fossil” because its anatomy has changed little in the last 65 million years. Despite being one of the most studied fish in history, it continues to reveal new ...

A new study has rewritten a key chapter in the story of vertebrate evolution. Researchers from the University of São Paulo (USP) in Brazil and the Smithsonian Institution in the United States have ...

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 ...

Paleontologists have discovered that dozens of fossil bones tucked away, and in some cases displayed in British museum collections for more than a century, are not fragments of reptiles or mammals at ...

The sturgeon is an ancient and iconic species of fish. Long and bony, with a body covered in armored plates known as scutes, the sturgeon has been called a “living fossil” with evolutionary roots ...

NEW YORK — A big catch of fish fossils in southern China includes the oldest teeth ever found — and may help scientists learn how our aquatic ancestors got their bite. The finds offer new clues about ...