Researchers classify the coelacanth under the group Sarcopterygii, which include the earliest ancestors of amphibians, reptiles, and mammals.

It went like this: "MOST IMPORTANT PRESERVE SKELETON AND GILLS = FISH DESCRIBED ... Coelacanths belong to the group Sarcopterygii, which includes lungfish. They possess the features of ancient ...

Billed as America's only skeleton museum, the Museum of Osteology ... along with the African lungfish, which are sometimes ...

Call it a UFO: an unidentified floating object. Beachcombers were baffled over a creepy, “skeleton-like” figure with fins that washed ashore in the UK, as seen in viral photos making waves online.

Paula and Dave Regan discovered the unsettling object while walking on a beach in Kent, England, on March 10 Toria Sheffield joined the PEOPLE editorial staff in 2024. Her work as a writer/editor ...

Not far from Jerusalem, archaeologists have discovered the fifth-century burial of a person wrapped in heavy metal chains. But the Byzantine-era grave held another surprise: The person who had ...

The skeleton had mostly human-like features, but it also had the body proportions, jawbone and pitted occipital bone at the back of the skull that were characteristic of Neanderthals. At the time ...

A couple made an unsettling discovery during their stroll down a beach in England. Paula and Dave Regan were in the seaside town of Margate on March 10 when they spotted a mermaid-like skeletal ...

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greater gliders and lungfish — threatened with extinction. These recovery plans are like a "rescue road map", said Wilderness Society biodiversity policy and campaign manager Sam Szoke-Burke.