Methuselah, the oldest fish living in an aquarium, was transported to California in 1938. Gayle Laird In November 1938, an Australian lungfish named Methuselah arrived at San Francisco’s Steinhart ...

Ever wonder where is the world's oldest living fish being housed in an aquarium? It happens to be in San Francisco, according to the California Academy of Sciences (Cal Academy). Methuselah, an ...

NEW YORK – Scientists have decoded the DNA of a celebrated “living fossil” fish, gaining new insights into how today’s mammals, amphibians, reptiles and birds evolved from a fish ancestor. The African ...

Primeval fish that were thought to be "living fossils," largely unchanged since the time of the dinosaurs, are actually evolving dramatically — and they evolved faster when Earth's continents moved ...

The coelacanth is known as a "living fossil" because its anatomy has changed little in the last 65 million years. Despite being one of the most studied fish in history, it continues to reveal new ...

Hundreds of millions of years later, these species are nearly indistinguishable from their prehistoric ancestors. A horseshoe crab is seen swimming along the sea floor in coastal waters surrounding ...

For 150 million years, gars—a group commonly derided as “trash fish”—have mostly stayed the same, a rare consistency not even seen in sharks, a new study says. A longnose gar swims through Florida's ...

Alexis Chappuis and UNSEEN Expeditions took the images of a rare living coelacanth in Indonesia Madison E. Goldberg received her B.S. in Journalism and double minors in publishing and photography from ...