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 ...

An underwater species that was once believed to have gone extinct some 70 million years ago was recently spotted in what became a rare photoshoot for the fish. Researchers found the coelacanth, known ...

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 ...

True extinction is final, a point of no return where a species disappears forever. And sadly, species go extinct all the time ...

On the morning of December 22nd, 1938, a young museum curator in East London, South Africa, found something on the deck of a fishing trawler that she didn’t believe still existed. Among a pile of ...

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 ...

Imagine if you turned on the news tonight and saw a report that a hunter had accidentally shot down a pterodactyl. That's almost what happened on the Eastern Cape of South Africa in December of 1938, ...

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 ...

Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer, a self-trained South African naturalist who in 1938 discovered a live coelacanth, a species of bony, four-finned fish thought to have been extinct and often described since ...

A coelacanth thought extinct for 70 million years shocked scientists when it was rediscovered alive in 1938 off South Africa.