With the aid of the intracranial joint and other cranial muscles, the coelacanth usually swallows its prey whole. Its teeth are designed not so much to grab or slice fish but to prevent them from ...

Adding to the list of unusual characteristics is that the coelacanth is supported by a notochord rather than a robust spine. Coelacanths have a bony skull which has an intracranial joint, a hinge that ...

Professor John Long explains new paper providing insights into the biology of the unique skull and brain of coelacanth. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of ...

IN my review of Prof. J. L. B. Smith's account of the existing Coelacanth fish, Latimeria (NATURE, July 13, 1940, p. 53), I remarked that the fins appeared to agree with those of the fossil ...

The discovery of a living coelacanth fish rocked the world in 1939, as scientists thought they had died out with the dinosaurs. A new study illuminates how its skull and tiny brain develop.

Coelacanths are large fish that evolved 410 million years ago ... the bones of the jaw and skull have continued to evolve. In fact, study co-author Richard Cloutier, an evolutionary biologist ...

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.

Like the coelacanth, this fish was previously thought to be extinct ... the arrangement of some skull bones; a separation of pulmonary-system blood flow from blood flow throughout the rest ...

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 ...