I think there is a grain of truth in what Robert says, but he is overating the importance of it.
It was originally speculated that Coelacanths (the living ones, don't know about the fossil species) walked along the seabed rather than swam in open water. As they live in fairly deep water nobody had ever seen them in their natural habitat until fairly recently - and when they were filmed they were free-swimming.
As has been pointed out previously, the current living populations are not the same beasties as those in the fossil record, so I don't see why this is any kind of problem for the TOE.
Just for grins, you can try this
Coelacanth quiz. from PBS/Nova. The answer to question 3 is false