With the aid of the intracranial joint and other cranial muscles, the coelacanth usually swallows its prey whole. Its teeth are designed not so much to grab or slice fish but to prevent them from ...

Coelacanths are strange fish that are currently only known from two species found along the East African coast and in ...

This "living fossil" can grow as large as an alligator, has two rows of needle-sharp teeth, and such strong armor that it survived predatory dinosaurs.

Million-Year-Old Giant Fish Remains Discovered in Australia, Experts Call It ‘Living Fossil' The coelacanth, often referred ...

Among living fossil fish, the coelacanth is the most famous ... It is a fierce fighter with sharp teeth that is known to eat fish of all kinds as well as frogs, snakes, turtles, and even small ...

For the past 85 years, the coelacanth has been dubbed a “living fossil” because it evokes a bygone era, the age of dinosaurs. These fish belong to the sarcopterygians, a group that also ...

Females have big teeth and a light-organ on a stalk between their eyes ... in the water that could be made by prey such as shrimps or small squid and fishes. The coelacanth is the most famous living ...

Staff at the National Museum of Kenya display a coelacanth caught in 2001 A "fossil" fish can live for an impressively long time - perhaps for up to a century, according to a new study.