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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Picture yourself dragging in your fishing net after a day at sea, only to catch a glimpse of a strange creature staring back ...

The first-ever encounter with a live Sulawesi coelacanth has just been reported by divers off the coast of Indonesia. However, to protect this incredibly rare species from tourists who may want to ...

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 ...

Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer, a self-trained South African naturalist who in 1938 discovered a live coelacanth, a species of bony, four-finned fish thought to have been extinct and often described since ...

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The BBC and the Taiwanese public broadcaster PTS have acquired NHK’s documentary Deep Ocean: Kingdom of the Coelacanth. The 52-minute documentary, produced with ZDF/ARTE and OceanX in collaboration ...