#biology #anatomy #coelacanth #latimeria

An article published in the journal "Science Advances" reports the results of a thorough examination of the cranial musculature of the African coelacanth (Latimeria chalumnae), a so-called living fossil because it has changed very little over tens of millions of years.

https://english.netmassimo.com/2025/07/30/a-new-anatomical-study-of-coelacanths-offers-new-insights-into-vertebrate-evolution/

Fossil of Large #Jurassic #Coelacanth Found in England
https://www.sci.news/paleontology/mawsoniid-coelacanth-england-11454.html Paper: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02724634.2022.2125813

During the #Cretaceous period, #coelacanths are known by two families only, the #Latimeriidae, which survived to the present with the genus #Latimeria, and the #Mawsoniidae, which lived from the #Permian to Cretaceous period. Unlike members of the Latimeriidae family, which are exclusively marine, #mawsoniids were also native to freshwater and brackish environments.