Modern coelacanths, and most fossilized species, are slow moving, "lay-in-wait" type of predators, according to study researcher Mark Wilson, a paleontologist at the University of Alberta in Canada.

The capture of the first living Coelacanth, a mighty ocean predator, off the coast of South Africa caused quite a stir in 1938, 65 million years after its supposed extinction.

Coelacanths are iconic fishes, ... shark-like predator. This contrasts with living coelacanths, which are slow-moving fishes with peculiar broad tails bearing 3 lobes. ...

Coelacanths are an ancient species of fish that swam alongside the dinosaurs, and for a long time were thought to have gone extinct with them 65 million years ago. ... These unusual fish are nocturnal ...

A 66 million-year-old fossilized lung belonging to a previously unknown giant coelacanth fish was recently discovered in Morocco.

A new ancient fish with a sharklike tail discovered in Canada was a fast-moving, aggressive predator, quite unlike its sluggish relatives today. Today's coelacanth (Latimeria chalumnae) is famous ...

Coelacanth off Pumula on the KwaZulu-Natal South Coast, South Africa, in November 2019. (Bruce A.S. Henderson, Michael D. Frazer, et al. / South African Journal of Science) (CN) — The coelacanth, a ...

Modern coelacanths, and most fossilized species, are slow moving, "lay-in-wait" type of predators, according to study researcher Mark Wilson, a paleontologist at the University of Alberta in Canada.

That's because all other known coelacanth species have broad tails designed to lunge short distances after prey, Wendruff said. By contrast, the 3-foot-long (0.9-meter-long) Rebellatrix had a ...