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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

Hugo Dutel receives funding from the Natural Environment Research Council (NE/P013090/1). John Long receives funding from The Australian Research Council University of Bristol provides funding as a ...

A new study has rewritten a key chapter in the story of vertebrate evolution. Researchers from the University of São Paulo (USP) in Brazil and the Smithsonian Institution in the United States have ...