Moment of Discovery Relive the excitement of the coelacanth's first appearance. Other Fish in the Sea The coelacanth is only the most famous of the "fossil fish." Anatomy of the Coelacanth Almost ...

To Correct Some Fishy Anatomy, Researchers at the National Museum of Natural History Get Inside the Head of a Coelacanth The new work adds to the legacy of Dave Johnson, a long-time museum curator ...

A team of scientists has uncovered never-before-seen anatomy of an ancient fish that transforms their understanding of vertebrate evolution.

The use of “gyotaku” as a biological data source could help preserve the kinds of fish they so beautifully document, researchers write.

Classroom Activity for the NOVA program Ancient Creature of the Deep: In Fish Anatomy, students compare and classify a living fossil, the coelacanth, in relation to a moray eel and a bull shark.

Can fish feel pain? The debate rages among scientists as to whether fish do, in fact, feel pain or are just reacting erratically to certain stimuli.

Science Fish got their jaws millions of years earlier than previously thought Meet the spiny, ancient Fanjingshania renovatais—likely the oldest discovered fish ancestor with jaws. By Laura Baisas ...

Students aimed practice casts at wooden targets, pored over diagrams of fish anatomy and listened intently to representatives from the California Department of Fish and Wildlife at a series of ...

To answer these questions, researchers gathered data from three different sources of data to analyze sound behavior for ray-finned fish (which make up almost all of the worlds fish species: (1) ...