Why it's awesome: Scientists thought all coelacanths went extinct over 65 million years ago — until the West Indian Ocean coelacanth was found by chance living off the coast of South Africa in 1938 .

A rare coelacanth was accidentally caught near the Comoros, raising new concerns for one of the world's oldest fish lineages.

The coelacanth species dates back 420 million years and was thought to have gone extinct with dinosaurs A rare fish species believed to have gone extinct with dinosaurs millions of years ago has ...

The fossilised remains of a prehistoric fish have been unearthed at a Leeds beauty spot. The skull bone of the coelacanth, ...

The coelacanth (pronounced SEEL-uh-kanth) is an enormous, bottom-dwelling fish that is unlike other living fishes in a number of ways. They belong to an ancient lineage that has been around for more ...

The ancient coelacanth, a lobe-finned fish, is a “living fossil” in every sense of the term. Biologists believe this supreme survivor has undergone little change in 400 million years. Here’s its story ...

African coelacanths are very old. Fossil evidence dates their genesis to around 400 million years ago, and scientists thought they were extinct until 1938, when museum curator Marjorie ...

The capture of the first living Coelacanth, a mighty ocean predator, off the coast of South Africa caused quite a stir in 1938, 65 million years after its supposed extinction. It became known as a ...

They’re big, they’re furtive, they’re weird-looking. You almost certainly wouldn’t want to dine on one, since they’re endangered and are said to cause digestive distress in people who eat them. But ...

A remarkably preserved skull bone from a 320-million-year-old coelacanth, one of Earth's rarest prehistoric fish, has been ...