NEW YORK Scientists have decoded the DNA of a celebrated "living fossil" fish, gaining new insights into how today's mammals, amphibians, reptiles and birds evolved from a fish ancestor. The African ...

A remarkable find in 1938 stunned scientists. A fish, believed extinct for millions of years, was caught off South Africa.

Coelacanths gained 62 new genes from traveling DNA that was passed on from other species, new research reveals in a remarkable glimpse into how the genome of one of the most ancient and mysterious ...

A species of coelacanth, a fish that dates back to before the dinosaurs, has been photographed in Indonesia for the first time. Chappuis overcame the challenge of deep mixed-gas diving, which has led ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American It was supposed to be extinct. Yet here it ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... In the hope of reconstructing a pivotal step in evolution — the colonization of land by fish that learned to walk and breathe air — researchers have decoded ...

Coelacanths are humungous, ancient fish that were first discovered in 1938. But they are rare and at one point they were thought to be extinct. Now researchers have found that these massive fish may ...

The coelacanth uses its gills to extract oxygen from water just like all other fishes that exist today but millions of years ago prior to the age of the dinosaur, the ancestors of this so-called ...