Lobe-finned fishes like coelacanths are more closely related to tetrapods than to ray-finned fishes (Actinopterygii), which make up about 99% of the known fish species. Tetrapods include birds, ...

IN my review of Prof. J. L. B. Smith's account of the existing Coelacanth fish, Latimeria (NATURE, July 13, 1940, p. 53), I remarked that the fins appeared to agree with those of the fossil ...

Yet such a rudimentary brain has clearly done nothing to hinder the species' long-term survival. Previously known only from fossils of primitive fishes, this joint allows the coelacanth to open ...

Coelacanths are strange fish that are currently only known from two species found along the East African coast and in Indonesia. A team from the Natural History Museum (MHNG) and the University of ...

Coelacanths are fish of which there are only two current species and which, with a few exceptions, evolved slowly over more ...