In October 2024, deep-technical divers off the coast of North Maluku, Indonesia, recorded the first-ever underwater images of a live Sulawesi coelacanth (Latimeria menadoensis). Long considered a ...
An underwater species that was once believed to have gone extinct some 70 million years ago was recently spotted in what became a rare photoshoot for the fish. Researchers found the coelacanth, known ...
These “total monsters of fishes” are extinct today, though new clues about their lives come from CT scans and their closest living relatives: the big-eyed ratfish of the deep sea Strange fossils ...
When an animal moves from the endangered species list to being officially extinct, it's undeniably a sad day. The creature ...
Long before whales dominated the oceans, Earth’s seas were home to a fish so massive it continues to challenge our understanding of prehistoric life. Leedsichthys problematicus, an enormous ...
WASHINGTON, 21 October (BelTA - Xinhua) - You may never hear anything about placoderms, but palaeontologists from China and Sweden said Thursday that our jaws can be traced back to these extinct ...