The two fossil specimens, representing a single coelacanth, were collected during a 2008 expedition to what was once an ...

Climate change and asteroids are linked with animal origin and extinction -- and plate tectonics also seems to play a key evolutionary role, 'groundbreaking' new fossil research reveals. The discovery ...

Coelacanths are deep-sea fish that live off the coasts of southern Africa and Indonesia and can reach up to two meters in ...

Now the first 300 kilometers of the entire U.S., from surface through the Earth's mantle and crust, are visible in 3D, ...

Coelacanth fossils like these are useful because two known coelacanth species are still alive today. They are likened to ...

Today, the living coelacanth Latimeria (Sarcopterygii: Actinistia) is an iconic, so-called ‘living fossil’ within one of the ...

That drags gold particles out of fluid in Earth’s crust. The particles crystallize ... This false color 3D X-ray tomography reconstruction shows high-grade gold in quartz. Photograph by Chris ...

Researchers have discovered a well-preserved Devonian coelacanth fish in Western Australia, shedding light on the connection ...

For example, if you look at the centres of the crater, of its peak ring and of the uplifted rock that underlies the crust in Earth's mantle ... provide an enhanced 3D view of the structure.

or movement in the Earth’s crust, according to the new study in Nature Communications. (Open access when published) Led by Flinders University and experts from Canada, Australia and Europe ...

This new “exceptionally well-preserved” ancient and primitive coelacanth is linked to a period of heightened movement of the Earth’s crust that ... preserved 3D fish fossils from Gogo ...

Coelacanths are deep-sea fish that live off the coasts of southern Africa and Indonesia and can reach up to two metres in ...