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, ...

The report suggests that this species, known as Latimeria menadoensis, joined the first species, Latimeria chalumnae, which was discovered off the coast of South Africa. The coelacanth’s sudden ...

Though she didn't know it straightaway, Courtenay-Latimer had rediscovered the coelacanth ... pictures of a small colony in Sodwana Bay, South Africa.

Scientists assumed for generations that the coelacanth became extinct ... That feeling ended in 1938 when a South African museum curator encountered a peculiar fish. The local fisherman caught ...

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.

A coelacanth stares calmly into Laurent's lens, 120 metres below the surface of Sodwana Bay, on the east coast of South Africa. We are trialling longer online captions for Wildlife Photographer of the ...

Imagine the surprise when, in 1938, this so-called “extinct” fish was discovered alive and well off the coast of South Africa. As per the report, the coelacanth’s physical traits are nothing ...