Climate change and asteroids are linked with animal origin and extinction—and plate tectonics also seems to play a key ...

Researchers have discovered a well-preserved Devonian coelacanth fish in Western Australia, shedding light on the connection ...

Coelacanths are deep-sea fish that live off the coasts of southern Africa and Indonesia and can reach up to two meters in ...

Today, the living coelacanth Latimeria (Sarcopterygii: Actinistia) is an iconic, so-called ‘living fossil’ within one of the ...

Are the world's oldest 'living fossil' coelacanths still evolving? Groundbreaking fossil research links plate tectonics with ...

Coelacanth fossils like these are useful because two known coelacanth species are still alive today. They are likened to ...

The study confirms the Late Devonian Gogo Formation as one of the ... and are thus considered to be more closely related to lungfish and tetrapods (the back-boned animals with arms and legs ...

A live recreation of the Ngamugawi wirngarri coelacanth in its natural habitat. Palaeoart illustration Katrina KennyClimate change and asteroids are ...

Access VIDEO, photos and captions hereClimate change and asteroids are linked with animal origin and extinction - and plate tectonics also seems to ...

They are thought to be the most closely related species to the first tetrapods, the ancestor of all vertebrates. These ancestors likely sprouted limbs and crawled onto land around 370 million years ...

Scientists believe they are more closely related to tetrapods (animals with backbones ... three-dimensionally preserved coelacanth from the Devonian Period (359 million to 419 million years ...