The unexpected capture of a living coelacanth in the 1930s was 'the most sensational natural history discovery' of the century. In April 1939, New Zealand's Auckland Star proclaimed that the Loch Ness ...

However, it is now being discovered in fossil finds that tectonics too, have a role in species evolution. Ancient primitive 'Devonian coelacanth' fish were recently brought to the surface in the ...

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.