Since 1952, L. chalumnae has been found elsewhere on the east coast of Africa, including in Madagascar, Mozambique and Kenya. Coelacanths were first described by Louis Agassiz in 1836 from a ...

Researchers Unearth 420-Million-Year-Old ‘Living Fossil’ Fish Species, Helped Them to Connect Human Evolution Analysis of 420 ...

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.

“These new pieces of information on coelacanths’ biology and life history are essential to the conservation and management of this species.” Experts from the Women’s Brain Foundation and bit.bio will ...

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 ...

Coelacanths are difficult to classify. They have many characteristics in common with sharks, and yet in certain characteristics they more closely resemble other types of fish. In this activity ...

NHK and NHK Enterprises teamed up with ZDF, ARTE and OceanX for Deep Ocean: The Kingdom of the Coelacanth and succeeded in capturing the world’s first video images of coelacanths and possible ...