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.

Coelacanths have a bony skull which has an intracranial joint, a hinge that allows the fish to open its mouth especially wide. This feature isn't seen in any other living vertebrate. Finding a living ...

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