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 ...

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 ...

In October 2024, deep-technical divers off the coast of North Maluku, Indonesia, recorded the first-ever underwater images of a live Sulawesi coelacanth (Latimeria menadoensis). Long considered a ...

Primeval fish that were thought to be "living fossils," largely unchanged since the time of the dinosaurs, are actually evolving dramatically — and they evolved faster when Earth's continents moved ...

Scuba divers surveying deep-sea habitats in North Maluku found a coelacanth, an elusive deep-sea species, in a first-of-its-kind sighting. Photo from Blancpain Ocean Commitment Plunging into the ...

"This booklet was produced in conjunction with a special temporary exhibition in the British Museum (Natural History) to mark the 50th anniversary of the discovery of ...