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 ...

The northern sea robin is a strange-looking fish with legs that it uses to "taste" the seafloor. Where it lives: The shallow ...

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

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 ...

An curved arrow pointing right. In the basement of the American Museum of Natural History in New York City, sits a container with two coelacanths preserved in alcohol. Not too long ago, scientists ...

Staff at the National Museum of Kenya display a coelacanth caught in 2001 A "fossil" fish can live for an impressively long time - perhaps for up to a century, according to a new study.