Since 1952, L. chalumnae has been found elsewhere on the east coast of Africa, including in Madagascar, Mozambique and Kenya. Coelacanths were first described by Louis Agassiz in 1836 from a ...

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The coelacanth has gills similar to those of fish living at the depths in which it is commonly found (500 to 800 feet). The gills have a relatively small surface area compared with the body mass ...

Staff at the National Museum of Kenya display a coelacanth caught in 2001 A "fossil" fish can live for an impressively long time - perhaps for up to a century, according to a new study.

The coelacanth is a remarkable deep-sea fish found along the coasts of eastern Africa and Indonesia up to 2m in length. They are "lobe-finned" fish, in other words, having robust bones in their ...

An curved arrow pointing right. In the basement of the American Museum of Natural History in New York City, sits a container with two coelacanths preserved in alcohol. Not too long ago, scientists ...

amid an otherwise ordinary haul of fish. Though she didn't know it straightaway, Courtenay-Latimer had rediscovered the coelacanth, which was assumed to have died out at the end of the Cretaceous ...

Coelacanths are difficult to classify. They have many characteristics in common with sharks, and yet in certain characteristics they more closely resemble other types of fish. In this activity ...