Later, experiments conducted from a submersible confirmed that coelacanths can detect and respond to electrical fields in the water, strongly implicating the rostral organ for this role.

Coelacanths are difficult to classify ... They may be flattened from side to side, as in the angelfish, allowing them to maneuver in narrow spaces. Fishes that are flattened from top to bottom ...

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 ...

Scientists assumed for generations that the coelacanth became extinct. The ancient fish, that was 400 million years old, was supposed to have died 65 million years ago. That feeling ended in 1938 ...

12) in the journal Nature Communications. Coelacanths are large fish that evolved 410 million years ago. Once known only from fossils, they were thought to be extinct until a fisher in South ...