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For nearly a century the coelacanth stands as one of biology’s most striking reminders that the fossil record is not the last ...

Coelacanths are strange fish that are currently only known from two species found along the East African coast and in Indonesia. A team from the Natural History Museum (MHNG) and the University of ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Primeval fish that were thought to be "living fossils," largely unchanged since the time of the dinosaurs, are actually evolving ...

An ancient coelacanth—the type of fish deemed a ‘living fossil’ when it was discovered in 1938—may have evolved in concert with tectonic activity, according to a new paper. In the work—published today ...

We see evolution all around us, constantly, in every living thing. Yet in the deep oceans we find a number of "living fossils" reminiscent of creatures from prehistoric times. In his 1859 book On the ...

The new work adds to the legacy of Dave Johnson, a long-time museum curator famed for his detail-oriented research on fishes Jack Tamisiea A pair of coelacanth specimens that were formerly on loan to ...

Climate change and asteroids are linked with animal origin and extinction -- and plate tectonics also seems to play a key evolutionary role, 'groundbreaking' new fossil research reveals. The discovery ...

Learn how fossils and high-resolution imaging revealed that some Triassic fish may have used a lung-like organ to detect sound underwater — and what that suggests about early vertebrate senses. More ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American The famous “living fossil” known as the West ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. an illustration of a long gray coelacanth swimming in its native habitat Paleontologists recently discovered a new extinct ...