The coelacanth fish is a literal living fossil with fossil records on this species dating back over 410 million years. But ...

The Indonesian coelacanth, a fish once thought to be extinct for 70 million years, was discovered alive in greater numbers ...

In a remarkable discovery off the rugged coastline of California, researchers have encountered a living coelacanth, a ...

For decades, an "extremely rare" fossil sat unidentified in Japan's Museum of Unique Insect Fossils. Discovered in 1988 in ...

Indeed, researchers are coming to realize that the term “living fossil” is a misnomer. One by one, the classic examples—horseshoe crabs, coelacanths, cycads, and more—have turned out to be very ...

Yet, there are many examples of macroevolutionary phenomena ... about what Earth's environment was like when these fossils were living can be used to infer what might have precipitated different ...

When fossil remains were found that were unlike anything living at the time, some scientists argued that they were unusual examples of living creatures, or that animals known only from fossils ...