Staff at the National Museum of Kenya display a coelacanth caught in 2001 A "fossil" fish can live for an impressively ... Two populations were subsequently discovered living off the eastern ...

A record bowfin was caught on a NJ creek on a warm day last month. Bowfin are living fossils as they're last survivor of a primitive family of fish.

Primeval fish that were thought to be "living fossils," largely unchanged since the time of the dinosaurs, are actually evolving dramatically — and they evolved faster when Earth's continents ...

Smith named the fish Latimeria chalumnae after Courtenay-Latimer and its place of capture, the mouth of the Chalumna River. When it was revealed, the story of the now-living fossil fish made headlines ...

Deforestation is just one of many additional pressures on the river that threaten the survival of the living fossil fish. Other threats include river fragmentation, habitat degradation ...