Via National Geographic:

One of the world’s oldest types of fish, coelacanths (pronounced
SEE-la-kanths) are primitive, slow-moving fish that had been thought
extinct until an individual was found off Africa in 1938. There are now
over 40 known coelacanth species. The two that live today are called
living fossils because they have remained virtually unchanged for 320
million years.

The newfound coelacanth has been dubbed Reidus hilli in honor of its discoverer Robert Reid, an artist who found the fish’s fossilized skull near his home in Forth Worth, Texas, in the late 1980s….