The coelacanth — a giant weird fish still around from dinosaur times — can live for 100 years, a new study found. These slow-moving, people-sized fish of the deep, nicknamed a “living fossil,” are the ...

What it eats: A variety of fish and cephalopods, including squid and cuttlefish. Head of a preserved Coelacanth specimen. Why it's awesome: Scientists thought all coelacanths went extinct over 65 ...

In October 2024, deep-technical divers off the coast of North Maluku, Indonesia, recorded the first-ever underwater images of a live Sulawesi coelacanth (Latimeria menadoensis). Long considered a ...

Dinosaurs ruled the planet between 230 to 66 million years ago, although many other life forms had evolved well before their existence. Moreover, some of these living creatures still exist today.

Off the Maluku Islands in Indonesia, two French divers descended to nearly 145 meters and found what few ever see: a living ...

Primeval fish that were thought to be "living fossils," largely unchanged since the time of the dinosaurs, are actually evolving dramatically — and they evolved faster when Earth's continents moved ...

Scuba divers surveying deep-sea habitats in North Maluku found a coelacanth, an elusive deep-sea species, in a first-of-its-kind sighting. Photo from Blancpain Ocean Commitment Plunging into the ...

"This booklet was produced in conjunction with a special temporary exhibition in the British Museum (Natural History) to mark the 50th anniversary of the discovery of ...