The fish was a coelacanth, one of a group that was thought to have gone extinct 70 million years earlier. But this one was alive. An unusual fish On 22 December 1938, Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer, ...

Thanks to a particle accelerator, a scientific team has identified a new species of these fish considered as "living fossils.

In the realm of nature, surprises abound, and some creatures you thought had vanished into history are still lurking in the ...

IN my review of Prof. J. L. B. Smith's account of the existing Coelacanth fish, Latimeria (NATURE, July 13, 1940, p. 53), I remarked that the fins appeared to agree with those of the fossil ...

Later, experiments conducted from a submersible confirmed that coelacanths can detect and respond to electrical fields in the water, strongly implicating the rostral organ for this role.

"With this new information we will be better able to assess it." The coelacanth was long thought to have gone extinct until famously turning up in a fishing net off South Africa in 1938.

The discovery of a living coelacanth fish rocked the world in 1939, as scientists thought they had died out with the dinosaurs. A new study illuminates how its skull and tiny brain develop.

Though she didn't know it straightaway, Courtenay-Latimer had rediscovered the coelacanth, which was assumed to have died out at the end of the Cretaceous period but somehow outlasted many of its ...