A prehistoric fish called the coelacanth was once thought to have gone extinct along with the dinosaurs 66 million years ago at the end of the Cretaceous Period. That notion was famously shattered in 1938 when a live coelacanth was dredged up in a fishing net off the east coast of South Africa, which garnered…
‘Living Fossil’ Fish the Coelacanth Can Live for Up to a Century—New Study Discovers
Weird ‘Living Fossil’ Fish Lives 100 Years, Pregnant for 5 Years
The coelacanth—a giant weird fish still around from dinosaur times—can live for 100 years, a new study found. These slow-moving, people-sized fish of the deep, nicknamed a “living fossil,” are the opposite of the live fast, die young mantra. These nocturnal fish grow at an achingly slow pace. Females don’t hit sexual maturity until their…
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