African coelacanths are very old. Fossil evidence dates their genesis to around 400 million years ago, and scientists thought they were extinct until 1938, when museum curator Marjorie ...

Mathematicians have solved a physics puzzle using backyard sprinklers. Experiments with silly sprinklers clarified how ...

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 ...

The capture of the first living Coelacanth, a mighty ocean predator, off the coast of South Africa caused quite a stir in 1938, 65 million years after its supposed extinction. It became known as a ...

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 ...