During recent construction work at a Los Angeles high school, millions of fossils were unearthed, many of which were marine ...

Coelacanths are deep-sea fish that live off the coasts of southern Africa and Indonesia and can reach up to two meters in ...

The ancient coelacanth, which has existed for some 419 million years, never stopped evolving despite its reputation as a ...

During construction, millions of fossils were found at a California high school, including megalodon teeth, extinct dolphins, ...

The two fossil specimens, representing a single coelacanth, were collected during a 2008 expedition to what was once an ...

Coelacanth fossils like these are useful because two known coelacanth species are still alive today. They are likened to ...

The ancient coelacanth, a lobe-finned fish, is a “living fossil” in every sense of the term. Biologists believe this supreme ...

Climate change and asteroids are linked with animal origin and extinction—and plate tectonics also seems to play a key ...

Ngamugawi wirngarri is a new species of coelacanth, an ancient fish species that has lived on Earth for over 400 million ...

The discoveries include sharks, shorebirds, mammals and saber-toothed salmon, with the oldest remains dating to almost nine ...

Today, the living coelacanth Latimeria (Sarcopterygii: Actinistia) is an iconic, so-called ‘living fossil’ within one of the ...

As pollution continues to impact the world’s oceans, methylmercury—the most toxic form of mercury—is increasingly ...