Among living fossil fish, the coelacanth is the most famous, but there are many others. Perhaps even more than other kinds of living fossils, these ancient fish, whose kind have swum the seas for ...

Primeval fish that were thought to be "living fossils," largely unchanged since the time of the dinosaurs, are actually evolving dramatically — and they evolved faster when Earth's continents ...

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fish which had handsome steel-blue scales ... The coming to light of this “living fossil” creates an evolutionary mystery. In logic its kind should have disappeared when the seas began ...

Fishermen off South Africa pull up an ungainly five-foot fish identified as a coelacanth, a living fossil thought extinct since the days of the dinosaurs. British ship Challenger II bounces sound ...

Some lobefins are still around today, such as the famous "living fossil" fish, the coelacanth. A fossil creature from the Devonian discovered more recently has been hailed as a vital link between ...

Related: Living fossils: 12 creatures that look the same ... The position of the fish's bones and fins, cells that gave the fish color, and their final meals had all remained frozen in time ...

The group includes the more famous animals such as whale sharks and great whites, but also all rays, skates and the little-known chimaeras – also known as ratfish, rabbit fish or ghost sharks. While ...

The serendipitous discovery of an exquisitely preserved fossil near Gulgong in NSW provides a glimpse into the evolution of ...

Discoverer of more dinosaur species than any other living scientist ... an hour's drive from the site where I'd prospected for fossil fish. "I was digging holes for planting trees," recalls ...