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, was discovered alive in greater numbers than anticipated. Divers recently found and photographed a living ...

In 1998, a second living species of coelacanth, Latimeria menadoensis (named ikan raja laut, the king fish of the sea, in Indonesian), was discovered off the island of Sulawesi, in Indonesia.