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West Indian Ocean coelacanth: The once-'extinct' Lazarus fish that can live for 100 years

What it eats: A variety of fish and cephalopods, including squid and cuttlefish. The head of a preserved Coelacanth specimen in Beijing, China. (Image credit: Alamy) Why it's awesome: Scientists ...
ScienceBlog

In 1938, a South African fisherman hauled up a fish that scientists believed had been extinct for 65 million years — the coelacanth, a deep-water species that had simply been ...

Preserved coelacanth specimen at the Natural History Museum in Vienna. Photo by Alberto Fernandez Fernandez, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons. The coelacanth story is often told as if a fossil came ...
Phys.org

Study revises 'living fossil' fish anatomy, reshaping view of vertebrate skull evolution

The coelacanth is known as a "living fossil" because its anatomy has changed little in the last 65 million years. Despite being one of the most studied fish in history, it continues to reveal new ...
Mongabay

Ghost fish: after 420 million years in the deeps, modern gillnets from shark fin trade drag coelacanths into the light

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Undersea canyons off Madagascar may turn out to be the Indian Ocean epicentre for coelacanths, the remarkable “fossil fish” which re-surfaced from ...