The return of the coelacanth

More than 30 specimens of Africa's earliest coelacanth have been found in a 360-million-year-old fossil estuary near Grahamstown in the Eastern Cape. All the specimens found are of juveniles, which means the species was using the estuary as a nursery. Dr Robert Gess, who analysed the specimens of the new fossil species Serenichthys kowiensis while completing his PhD at Wits University, said: "It is the earliest record we have of the breeding behaviour of coelacanths.