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.

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 ...

How did the goblin shark score its haunting name? It has something to do with the goblin shark's visage. Find out more about ...

Some lobefins are still around today, such as the famous "living fossil" fish, the coelacanth. A fossil creature from the Devonian discovered more recently has been hailed as a vital link between ...

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 ...

The group includes the more famous animals such as whale sharks and great whites, but also all rays, skates and the little-known chimaeras (also known as ratfish, rabbit fish or ghost sharks). While ...

They’ve lived in China’s Yangtze River for perhaps 140 million years, and this relic of the dinosaur era is sometimes dubbed a "living fossil ... these prehistoric fish journey some ...