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I come from a small town in South Africa called Grahamstown. It is the home of the J.L.B. Institute of Ichthyology, and houses several specimens of the Coelacanth – a pre-historic fish thought to be extinct until it was found in a nearby river in 19...

It's the world's most famous living fossil! Or is it? A living fossil, I mean. Because the Coalacanth is so ridiculously famous that whatever it is, it's probably the most famous one. A guy from the future just gave me his time machine! He says it works...

By Christina Albright-Mundy Prior to 1938, no living, or recently living, coelacanth (pronounced see-la-kanth) had ever been recorded; all known fossils were at least 65 million years old. That changed a few days before Christmas, in 1938, when a South...

Coelacanth morphology and genome has been extremely informative in understanding tetrapod evolution. Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer was the curator of a natural history museum in East London. In 1938 a local fisher brought a curious fish specimen which...

In 1938, Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer, the curator of the East London Museum in East London, South Africa, was informed that a pale mauve-blue fish, five feet long, had been netted by a trawler in the Indian Ocean off the coast of South Africa. Unable...