Later, experiments conducted from a submersible confirmed that coelacanths can detect and respond to electrical fields in the water, strongly implicating the rostral organ for this role.

The Coelacanth There are now 11 specimens of this curious fish, which until 1938 was thought to have been extinct for 70 million years. They provide prime evidence on the evolution of land animals ...

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 ...

Coelacanths are difficult to classify. They have many characteristics in common with sharks, and yet in certain characteristics they more closely resemble other types of fish. In this activity ...

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.