Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer, curator of the East London Museum in South Africa, stands beside the coelacanth specimen found in 1938. Image via Wikimedia Commons. 'From your drawing and description the ...

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 ...

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 ...

One of the most extraordinary examples? The coelacanth, a fish thought to have vanished 65 million years ago. Imagine the surprise when, in 1938, this so-called “extinct” fish was discovered ...