Later, experiments conducted from a submersible confirmed that coelacanths can detect and respond to electrical fields in the water, strongly implicating the rostral organ for this role.

Coelacanths have also been observed performing 'headstands', rotating their body to be vertical in the water and holding this position for several minutes. This behaviour is linked to a rostral organ ...

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 period but somehow outlasted many of its ...

Species like the Dendrogramma, Coelacanth, and Emperor Scorpion have ... creatures that resemble tiny mushrooms and lack sex organs and a nervous system, instead having a simple gastrovascular ...

Analysis of 420-million-year-old Coelacanths fossils in Western Australia ... intromittent genital organs, paired lungs, and chambered hearts developed in the Early Palaeozoic (540-350 million ...

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 ...