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, ...

Coelacanths are some of the strangest fish that swim the world's oceans. These wonderfully ugly fish have remained almost ...

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 ...

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

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 ...