Why Are Coelacanths Considered Swimming Fossils?

Why Are Coelacanths Considered Swimming Fossils? The coelacanth was long considered a “living fossil” because scientists thought it was the sole remaining member of a taxon otherwise known only from fossils, with no close relations alive, and that it evolved into roughly its current form approximately 400 million years ago. Can coelacanths breathe air? Before