The scales are hard, woven tight as armor, and rough to the touch. The roughness comes from tiny, tooth-like spikes called denticles, which provide the coelacanth with protection against rocks and ...

Yes, there was not a shadow of a doubt, scale by scale, bone by bone, fin by fin, it was a true Coelacanth.' Smith named the fish Latimeria chalumnae after Courtenay-Latimer and its place of capture, ...

But that's what happened in 1938, when a South African museum curator named Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer spied a bizarre creature with thick scales ... rediscovered the coelacanth, which was ...

Coelacanths are difficult to classify. They have many characteristics in common with sharks, and yet in certain characteristics they more closely resemble other types of fish. In this activity ...