In 1997, almost 60 years after the West Indian Ocean coelacanth's rediscovery, scientists found another coelacanth species in Indonesia. Known locally as 'raja laut' ('king of the sea'), it was ...

The Indonesian coelacanth, a fish once thought to be extinct for 70 million years, ... The sighting was of the other extant coelacanth species, the West Indian Ocean Latimeria chalumnae.

Coelacanths are large fish that evolved 410 million years ago. Once known only from fossils, they were thought to be extinct until a fisher in South Africa hauled one up in 1938.