An underwater species that was once believed to have gone extinct some 70 million years ago was recently spotted in what became a rare photoshoot for the fish. Researchers found the coelacanth, known ...

There are only two species of coelacanth that we know of, and there are barely any of them left. So few, in fact, that they were thought to be extinct until one was pulled up by a fishing trawler in ...

A fish thought to be evolution’s time capsule just surprised scientists. A detailed dissection of the coelacanth — a 400-million-year-old species often called a “living fossil” — revealed that key ...