Paleontologists recently discovered a new extinct coelacanth species that highlights the role that Earth’s plate tectonics plays in evolution. Also called Latimeria, coelacanths are a deep-sea fish ...

For decades, biologists have questioned how gill-bearing, finned fish evolved into air-breathing, limbed amphibians. It is often stated that during the Devonian period (360 to 420 million years ago) a ...

A shadowy figure lurks beneath the blue ocean pixels in Animal Crossing: New Horizons. Your avatar throws out their fishing rod — hoping to snag the beast — but after a brief tug, it swims out of ...

A 66 million-year-old fossilized lung from a previously unknown species of ancient fish, as large as a great white shark, has recently been uncovered in Morocco. Researchers believe the fish was a ...

To compare and classify a "living fossil," the coelacanth, in relation to a moray eel and a bull shark. Review with students the meaning of the phrase "living fossil" (an organism with a basic body ...

The coelacanth is known as a “living fossil” because its anatomy has changed little in the last 65 million years. Despite being one of the most studied fish in history, it continues to reveal new ...

Species is now the youngest coelacanth from Texas; Fish jaw and cranial material indicate a new family that was the evolutionary transition between 2 previously known families Pieces of tiny fossil ...

What do the ginkgo (a tree), the nautilus (a mollusc) and the coelacanth (a fish) all have in common? They don't look alike, and they aren't biologically related, but part of their evolutionary ...

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