Picture yourself dragging in your fishing net after a day at sea, only to catch a glimpse of a strange creature staring back at you, a creature that looks as if it just swam out of a fossil from the ...

A fish swims in the deep ocean called the coelacanth with odd lobe-shaped fins that grows to extremely large proportions. Coelacanths can reach lengths of up to six feet and weigh about 200 pounds, ...

Learn how new technology revealed a long-forgotten museum specimen to be a missing link in coelacanth evolution. A dusty fossil tucked away in a museum drawer for more than a century has transformed ...

In South Africa in 1938, a young museum curator named Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer was performing one of her regular duties when she saw something incredible. Courtenay-Latimer was tasked with ...

Coelacanth off Pumula on the KwaZulu-Natal South Coast, South Africa, in November 2019. (Bruce A.S. Henderson, Michael D. Frazer, et al. / South African Journal of Science) The ancient fish once ...