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

A live recreation of the Ngamugawi wirngarri coelacanth in its natural habitat. Palaeoart illustration Katrina KennyClimate change and asteroids are ...

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

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 ...

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

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

Are the world's oldest 'living fossil' coelacanths still evolving? Groundbreaking fossil research links plate tectonics with ...

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

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 ...

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 ...