Predicting only a small population of the fish, Smith grew uneasy with the practice of rewarding coelacanth captures, surmising in The Times in 1956that 'the world would rightly recoil in horror' if a ...

The coelacanth has gills similar to those of fish living at the depths in which it is commonly found (500 to 800 feet). The gills have a relatively small surface area compared with the body mass ...

Though she didn't know it straightaway, Courtenay-Latimer had rediscovered the coelacanth ... fish in 2000; in January and February 2010, a specially trained team dived deep to take pictures of a ...

An curved arrow pointing right. In the basement of the American Museum of Natural History in New York City, sits a container with two coelacanths preserved in alcohol. Not too long ago, scientists ...

Coelacanths are large fish that evolved 410 million years ago ... who live near the fossil beds. The species was small — only about 7.8 inches (20 centimeters) long. The modern species, by ...

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 ...