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 ...

Alexis Chappuis and UNSEEN Expeditions took the images of a rare living coelacanth in Indonesia Madison E. Goldberg received her B.S. in Journalism and double minors in publishing and photography from ...

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 ...

What do the ginkgo (a tree), the nautilus (a mollusc) and the coelacanth (a fish) all have in common? They don't look alike, and they aren't biologically related, but part of their evolutionary ...

New research sheds light on coelacanths’ capacity to maintain buoyancy deep underwater and hunt for food in a vertical posture. It is thought these abilities allow the fish to use less energy – ...

The modern coelacanth is a famous "living fossil," long thought to have died out, but first fished out of deep waters in the Indian Ocean in 1938. Since then, dozens of examples have been found, but ...

Richard Cloutier is also a Research Associate at the Centre of Excellence in Basin Studies and Applied Palaeontology, Mahasarakham University (Thailand). He has received funding from the Natural ...

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Believed to have gone extinct at the time of the dinosaurs, the coelacanth has one of the longest gestation periods on Earth — and it can hunt in a headstand. When you purchase through links on our ...

Alexis Chappuis and UNSEEN Expeditions took the images of a rare living coelacanth in Indonesia A species of coelacanth, a fish that dates back to before the dinosaurs, has been photographed in ...