The fish was a coelacanth, one of a group that was thought to have gone extinct ... The diagonal pelvic and pectoral fins work in tandem, like the leg movement pattern of a walking reptile.

With the aid of the intracranial joint and other cranial muscles, the coelacanth usually swallows its prey whole. Its teeth are designed not so much to grab or slice fish but to prevent them from ...

amid an otherwise ordinary haul of fish. 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 ...