The river roars in the heat of the summer. The water is clear and cool, and a respite from the high sun. An angler leans back ...

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.

Examine the anatomy of the coelacanth, including its armored scales, hinged skull, and limb-like fins. Anatomy of the Coelacanth Ancient Creature homepage ...

If any fish possesses the ability to surprise, it would be the coelacanth. ... Johnson, who passed away in November 2024, was among the world’s preeminent experts on fish anatomy.

The nickname 'platypus fish' stems from the fish's long beak, which resembles that of its mammal namesake, but the comparisons stop there. When paleontologist Gavin Young pulled several fossil ...

“This is the oldest jawed fish with known anatomy,” ZHU Min from the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (IVPP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences said in a press release.