The roughness comes from tiny, tooth-like spikes called denticles, which provide the coelacanth with protection against rocks and predators. The scales are a steely blue-gray in color and bear ...

Coelacanths are difficult to classify ... A rounded tail, like that of the angelfish, enables quick bursts of speed to escape predators. Fins: Help a fish move. The top fins are called dorsal ...

Though she didn't know it straightaway, Courtenay-Latimer had rediscovered the coelacanth, which was assumed to have died out at the end of the Cretaceous period but somehow outlasted many of its ...

From the coelacanth to the emperor scorpion ... have been on earth for around 250 million years. They are predators with a very powerful body design that has remained unchanged for millions ...