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 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, ...

In this activity, you will decide which type of fish—moray eels or bull sharks—is more closely related to coelacanths. On a separate sheet of paper, draw a coelacanth, bull shark, and moray ...

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 ...

Extraordinary fossil discoveries reveal an important link between plate tectonics and extreme evolutionary changes just like that of a well-preserved 'Devonian coelacanth' fish that was just ...