Coelacanths are deep-sea fish that live off the coasts of southern Africa and Indonesia and can reach up to two meters in ...

The two fossil specimens, representing a single coelacanth, were collected during a 2008 expedition to what was once an ...

The ancient coelacanth, which has existed for some 419 million years, never stopped evolving despite its reputation as a ...

Ngamugawi wirngarri is a new species of coelacanth, an ancient fish species that has lived on Earth for over 400 million ...

Climate change and asteroids are linked with animal origin and extinction -- and plate tectonics also seems to play a key evolutionary role, 'groundbreaking' new fossil research reveals. The discovery ...

“For more than 35 years, we have found several perfectly preserved 3D fish fossils from Gogo sites which have yielded many significant discoveries, including mineralised soft tissues and the ...

Prehistoric fossils discovered at San Pedro High School construction site. ABC “We realized we had millions of bones from sea creatures of all sorts, mostly fish, but also sea mammals ...

Hidden beneath concrete at San Pedro High School, construction workers found a buried secret — thousands of marine fossils echoing ... including dolphins, fish and whales that crowded the ...

This era of intense bombardment, known as the Ordovician impact spike, may have resulted from meteorites falling from the ring rather than flying in from space, which would explain the strange ...

“For more than 35 years, we have found several perfectly preserved 3D fish fossils from Gogo sites which have yielded many significant discoveries, including mineralised soft tissues and the ...

Around 380 million years ago, the site was a tropical reef teeming with more than 50 species of fish. Ngamugawi wirngarri, the new fossil coelacanth, is the first fish found in the area to bear a ...