Meet the coelacanth

[@jeffvaldez1883]

My ass would have stayed in the primordial soup if I knew there were gonna be days like this

[@samvonrichthofen3715]

Where would the rest of you be?

[@sherk3286]

@@samvonrichthofen3715 just above the primordial soup

[@samvonrichthofen3715]

@@sherk3286 Best place to be, I live a good soup, primordial or otherwise.

[@jasonchiu272]

@@samvonrichthofen3715 monke

[@sdlausen1]

Best comment of 2021

[@iSneedYouChuck]

*BLAST FROM THE PAST*

[@iluvsooubway8008]

Think positive! Be a coela-CAN!

[@SlothOfTheSea]

...But I can’t carry anything else! Should I swap it with something?

[@bluerious5475]

nice meme, but i don’t remember asking bro Sea bass

[@Cringo03]

@@bluerious5475 buy they're at least a c+!

[@epicx4395]

*accidentally releases*

[@gillriet773]

"Go Relicanth, hit em with Rock Slide"

[@sohya_bean]

Go Grovyle, use leaf blade! It was super effective!

[@RonLarhz]

Here for pokemon comments.

[@Johnsmith-rb8sw]

"Lugia use Solar Beam" "It's super effective..!"

[@PsychedelicMakai]

relicanth on bottom party or walord on bottom party? how to summon regi trio

[@XiangnuKhaan]

@@sohya_bean *leaf storm

[@wavyhomeboy]

Everyone’s talking about this fish in animal crossing, but I have always enjoyed hunting them in ARK survival evolved

[@TheAzsunshine11]

lmaoo same

[@xcantenerealguy1361]

A man of culture I see

[@YaowBucketHEAD]

I remember trying for weeks to catch one in Monster Hunter World. One shows up, Fulgur Anjanath decides to annoy me, I chase him off, and the fish took off. Took another couple of weeks for it to pop up again. 😑

[@dmitritelvanni4068]

Same! They kept me fed in my early days.

[@pige0223]

Running around with a spino in water just swiping at them was fun Until I got bored of ark sadly

[@bharatsharma1026]

This gentleman used the word "fishes" this solves the age old question of whether you can refer to many types of fish as fishes. I asked my english major friends and they said there is no such thing, its still just "fish" but Neil deGrasse Tyson said there is. I trust this man because he studies FISHES he definitely has the proper understanding of what plurals to use when referring to them.

[@nitsuaasemed1505]

I think it depends on context. Like in a scientific setting and with reference to different species of fishes, then fishes is the way to go. But if it's in general, fish is still fish in plural. In conversation though, just say whatever your mind thinks first. It doesn't really matter haha. Nevertheless, the word "fishes" does exist.

[@WingMaster562]

A living language changes. A word is only valid if majority of people agree on it, same goes for it's meaning. So fishes or school of fish are valid depending on whom youre speaking with.

[@thanhavictus]

Fish is paraphyletic. That's the easiest way to put it

[@Utgardaloki76]

This age old question of whether you "can" say something like fishes in stead of fish is no more than academic self-indulgence and more often than not proclaimed by people that know close to nothing of how languages work. The language belongs to and was invented by what ever people that speaks it. If a native speaker of what ever language uses the plural fishes in stead of fish then fishes it is for that person. There is nothing intrinsically or functionally wrong with that. Within linguistics pertaining to the usage of the language there is only one true mistake that can be made and that's the breakage of the linguistic code belonging to that language. If one happens to say horses when meaning fish(es) then an actual mistake has been made since it leads to a break in communication. That's an actual linguistic mistake. Some academics don't agree with this notion but that is a case of authority. Not of actual linguistics. Linguistics is the study of how (native) speakers speak and use their language. Not the act of telling people how they "should" speak. In Old English there is only one plural of the word fish in all senses. It's fishes (fiscas), not fish (fisc=singular). That doesn't mean that the modern alternative plural fish is wrong. It simply means that what ever plural native speakers use for fish is the right one even though it may vary. Despite what ever made up standards might imply. In modern scientific use (which doesn't necessarily coinside with actual native speaker use): many fish = many individuals of fish many fishes = many species of fish So if you have a fish tank containing five fish of bass and five fish of pike then the tank contains ten fish as well as two fishes... scientificly speaking. How you as a native speaker choose to express that is ultimately up to you.

[@muwahid5022]

Crazy, I learned in English that different types of fish are called fishes

[@30stu30]

No one: Blathers from Animal Crossing:

[@l3m0n41]

30stu30 Ngl this is the best comment I’ve every seen 😂

[@jackson5116]

@@l3m0n41 the game has 15 million people around the world knowing it now.

[@jackson5116]

didn't the game come out in 2001? That means players have known about this fish for almost 20 years, and you're now putting this comment on here?

[@l3m0n41]

Jack Son ...?

[@Pikachu-nm1um]

I caught three oarfish and a coelacanth in one day in animal crossing new horizons I was like HOLY FUCKING SHIT NO WAY!!!!!

[@jamessmith65536]

I'm amazed at that species. I didn't know that they bear live young rather than lay eggs.

[@vorpalzvevda3659]

Jasper Geli They lay eggs...just hold in itself until birth.

[@jestes7]

Vorpal Zvevda so do humans lol

[@GROMALOCARIS]

@@vorpalzvevda3659 that's basically what mammals do

[@DOI_ARTS]

Sharks do

[@hylianro]

No that’s not what mammals do. You compare this to a shark not a human lmao

[@thesandmancurtballirg4371]

Glad to see this. It's equally necessary to hear lectures and see pretty pics and wild film.

[@onebilliontacos3405]

Coelacanths are my favorite fish and it's great to see that they get the love they deserve!

[@leonidas7692]

Tasty

[@techclay39]

@@leonidas7692 a

[@techclay39]

@@leonidas7692 not really tasty since they taste like oil.

[@frost_spirit3314]

@@leonidas7692 people that did taste them they said that it doesn't taste good

[@dinoboyuk2047]

@@leonidas7692you wouldn’t wanna eat it-

[@GameyGaming]

Lol I hope I’m not the only one who knew about them before Animal Crossing

[@pluggothesluggo5509]

Wtf is animal crossing?

[@man.6618]

@@pluggothesluggo5509 u dont want to know 😔

[@pluggothesluggo5509]

@@man.6618 j o k e

[@thegamingcat1524]

I knew before animal crossing

[@rintuch1423]

@@man.6618 why would people not want to know ?

[@Todomo]

they actually have a preserved specimen now. I remember learning about these when I was young thinking they were so hidden away that we were lucky to see a photograph every few years. now look at us.

[@williamjordan5554]

There are many such specimens.

[@camhabibi2217]

This has been my favorite fish since 7th grade. I was big into cryptozoology and the idea of a living fossil that existed, known only to locals, was so fascinating.

[@markmiller8903]

These fish have been around for 400 million years and no evolution occurred.

[@xavierpaololedesmamandreza]

Game Freak and The Pokemon Company did one good thing: Through the Pokemon RELICANTH, they helped raise positive awareness of the actual Coelacanth and its importance in its conservation.

[@jackieelder4290]

Excellent video. I really appreciated watching it. I will definitely show this to my zoology class.

[@coelacanthropology]

Coelacanths are my favorite animal! I found a book on them in the free pile at the library when I was 8 or 9 and ever since then I’ve loved them! My friend crocheted me a stuffed coelacanth for Christmas. His name is Milo and I adore him.

[@sampartogi5771]

well, we need this fish to capture some legendary pokemon

[@theedittingjoke]

But how will we get a BlueWhale to get on land

[@phillipineball889]

@@theedittingjoke Teach it minimize. Problem solved!

[@denmichaelmalayo9716]

That game was legendary btw

[@elnino8985]

@SamPratogi well now it is found alive, you can capture legendary pokemon's

[@somedude2384]

I like the scientist here! Very informative and that fish is really nice looking! Glad to learn something today!

[@masterprocrastinator6190]

Me understanding everything he said after finishing my zoology class is a good feeling😤😎

[@gabrielaviles2945]

It truly is a feeling of enlightenment. But do not stop. Go to your book and look up every class of animal and every thing that makes it unique, including tissue, organs and bones

[@dmitritelvanni4068]

I remember mistaking them for pirhanna in the little cove when I first started on the ARK.

[@Flipdrivel]

It's really the wonderful background music that makes this video. I mean interesting facts alone can only ever be so interesting, what matters is that you stick some jumpy twitchy noises behind it to make it really come to life.

[@AdvSpringBonnie]

Think positive! Be a coela-CAN!

[@leafext]

Like an actual Cola Can

[@beauvinedotgov]

Momo crossy (yes I typed this on purpose)

[@nancyannIawrence]

my pockets are full already??!? should i swap it with somethng? Let it Go Swap it | | | |

[@SpinoAdri2001]

@@nancyannIawrence release him Let it go

[@Weeklongwind647]

c o e l a - C A N

[@1PITIFULDUDE]

They also have real enamel teeth, like humans, only a lot sharper.

[@alexkaspraksucks]

Holy crap, Caleb! I was thinking "hey I remember seeing a coelocanth on this Smithsonian internship..." and bam! A familiar face. So cool seeing you here, dude. (It's Jorge, from RTP!)

[@lukeskywalker1840]

I remember seeing one of these in the Oakland museum when I was a kid. I think it was a model but it was really cool anyway.

[@jerrywongts]

after watching this video, i realized I was saying it wrong pronouncing it as KO LA CANTH

[@roskichan3001]

relicanth

[@ChodeMaster]

Yes

[@DinoDavid10]

It’s not a relicanth it’s a coelacanth

[@aronzaldana8630]

@@DinoDavid10 relicanth is a pokemon name

[@thawtianajawnson30]

Beyblade Burst Evolution 2: Titan relicanth is obviously based off of a coelacanth.

[@DinoDavid10]

A replicant is a Pokémon???

[@plickplankplunk]

Information-packed. I like it. Thanks.

[@muthulingamramiah5546]

Oh wow, I just can't get enough of the Coelacanth... I've seen another video where they found multiple Coelacanths in a Fish Market somewhere in North Africa and Indonesia (I hope we don't fish them to extinction)... This makes you wonder, If Coelacanths survived multiple Mass Extinctions, what other prehistoric creatures survived???... I for one believe that we will find more of such prehistoric creatures coming back to life as we venture deeper and further into the ocean... I would love to see the Megalodon, Mosasaurus, Rhizodont (fresh Water fish) and Orthacanthus (fresh Water fish) making a come back too...

[@themplar]

very very very inlikely you gonna see any of those.

[@muthulingamramiah5546]

@@themplar You are probably right Bro, our ancestors probably fished the Rhizodont to extinction... if they tasted good, then chances are they are extinct...but I wish I do see one alive soon...

[@themplar]

@@muthulingamramiah5546 I am not really familiar with the last two. But considering fresh water fishies, its unlikely they kept around somewhere. As for megalodon or mosasaurus, chances are practicly nihil.

[@nexxusty]

RIGHT? This fish is so incredibly interesting. Glad to see there are others like me.

[@muthulingamramiah5546]

@@nexxusty I love mysterious fish like these.... I just hope we get to see a better Rhizodont fossil in the near future...

[@e-boy9486]

My favourite tf2 meet the characters video

[@indridcold8433]

These Oldie but goodies gives birth to live young. How fascinating. Some sharks do this as well.

[@thexipherino667]

I caught one in AC new horizons ! Such a majestic creature.

[@AnotherWS6]

Aww man, now I wanna know what they taste like. Prehistoric fish and chips just went on my fantasy bucket list.

[@erikedward1]

I watched a documentary about this fish when I was younger. It was also in animal crossing gamecube and pokemon

[@brianwallace2038]

Fun fact: "fish" is the plural form of "fish" when talking about a single species, while "fishes" is the plural of multiple species of fish.

[@I_WANT_MY_SLAW]

What about fishies?

[@abcdef2069]

because people and english lingo are too stupid and saying fish would make my brain wander as if i just meant single fish and when i really meant many. the same thing goes to the plural word "you" by saying "you people", if it were geman, this wouldnt happen, because single you and many you have different words.

[@rand49er]

Fascinating stuff! Thanks!

[@kurohyuki5912]

HOLY I actually thought that was a very well preserved fossil until he said it wasn't extinct.

[@nexxusty]

So envious of this man.

[@elnino8985]

West Indian ocean is heaven for these fishes. Came here after the news that it was found again few days ago near Madagascar.

[@B_B_Wes]

Everyone- Talking about the fish in different games. Me- WAIT. The plural has really been "Fishes" and not just "Fish"?!

[@rafaeblahblahblah]

I think it is valid word for marine biology / zoology.

[@izzahanneahm7726]

Fishes - refers to a group of different fish with different scientific name

[@alvianekka80]

@@izzahanneahm7726 So.... Fish = 🐠 Fish = 🐠🐠🐠 Fishes = 🐠🐟🐡

[@izzahanneahm7726]

@@alvianekka80 yesss

[@aloysiust88]

1:24 Imagine he tries to lift the fin, and it snaps at the joint 😬 (well I guess he could still place everything back into the jar)

[@dagonhadenough1924]

Its like a friendly dunkelosteous

[@tyler3901]

all these people talking about animal crossing while im here like "uhhh i play ark"

[@Pandariansiguess]

I did my first elementary school presentation on these!

[@sekar_exe]

I saw Coelacanth skeleton in a research center in Indonesia a few months ago. Such a unique fish, and I hope this fish can live longer

[@carmelat5015]

Sekar Widiasih they are not extinct though there endangered

[@Br4m76]

moyangnya kerapu itu. anyway, indeed it's a beautiful fish!!

[@metthew1846]

it's still alive

[@dinolord4961]

They can live for around 60 years or so

[@garlicmuncher]

They survived 4 different mass extinction events, they'll long outlive humanity

[@augadusdongadus7770]

Hey, I only know this from rainy Animal Crossing days.

[@Noob-fp7jn]

Just a question. Why did that fish didn't evolve even just a little in 65 million years ago?..

[@johnwoa]

To answer your question, the Coelacanth is considered the evolutionary "missing link" between fish and humans. Living in deep water off the coast of East Africa and in an apparent protected environment (e.g. caves/caverns), the Coelacanth escaped the destruction caused by the asteroid that struck the Western Hemisphere (Gulf of Mexico region) 65 million years ago that wiped out the dinosaurs on Earth. Literally "left behind" by the complete asteroid destruction, the small concentration of Coelacanths continued to live without evolving and the first living specimen was discovered off Madagascar in the 1930's.

[@Noob-fp7jn]

@@johnwoa yeah but I thought evolution is triggered due to the environment and I don't think that earth didnt change . Maybe it couldve had evolved some extra features within 65 million long years. Is it in it's final form that it didn't need to evolve more ?

[@phoenicianathletix2866]

Some species dont have to evolve to because they're already endowed with necessary attributes to survive future environmental challenges. That fish could climb out of the water inside the pockets of deep sea caves like in the last Godzilla film were the guy detonated the nuke. That fish could access more oxygen in those cave pockets while other species died from the release of harmful gaseous vapors of the impact of giant objects crashing into earth that theoretically killed dinosaurs

[@phoenicianathletix2866]

Most Apex Predators today are the same from prehistoric times or just smaller like sharks, crocodiles and bears

[@Noob-fp7jn]

@@phoenicianathletix2866 ok . But is there a fossil found that is in it's evolving phase .. like in butterflies they turn into a cocoon but if you examine inside you can actually see the new body parts growing out of the caterpillar. In mammals it was explained that it will took houndred thousand years but the the fossil i only know are the ape like humans descovered in africa.. could you pls pin me some link about these topic just for educational purposes..

[@bertayarkereta7847]

cool. glad this pops out on the suggestions

[@-MochiWochi-]

Coelacanths been living with dinosaurs and I only know like 121-147dinos it take me forever to name all of them. I thought ceolacanths were extinct until I heard of it.

[@elekrii]

The most incredible thing is that this fish is not exctinct! It's really surprising that they are not gone.

[@dinolord4961]

TheAlpineOwl especially considering that they were originally thought to have died out with the dinosaurs

[@davidsoup1738]

Came from animal crossing, stayed for interesting facts about an ancient fish.

[@vrkona501]

New Relicanth evolution looks lit

[@hermanherman5834]

I can only imagine what other wildlife thought to be extinct is still around in some part of the world. No way there's not creatures living today that we've never even come across.

[@scringle535]

I WISH I could see a coelacanth specimen in person.

[@charlesthedeadlifter4376]

The lady didn't discover it, technically, the fisherman who caught it, discovered it. She took credit. The fisherman is the real MVP!

[@ColumbiaB]

Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer deserves credit for recognizing that, among the catch of the day, that fish merited particularly close examination. Courtenay-Latimer, the curator of a museum in the port town of East London (northeast of Cape Town), was a friend of Captain Hendrick Goosen, of the trawler Nerine, who regularly invited her to check out the boat’s catch for any unusual specimens, upon returning to port. She was called to meet the boat on 22 Dec. 1938. Looking over the pile of fish on the deck of the Nerine, what would eventually be identified as a coelacanth caught her eye, and she knew it must be something special. So, the fisherman deserves our gratitude for having been generously helpful in accommodating scientific research. But in any meaningful sense of the word, Courtenay-Latimer •did• discover the coelacanth. Had she not picked out that specimen for closer study, the fisherman wouldn’t have written a scholarly monograph on it; he would’ve just sold it for fish sticks.

[@rabbiama2940]

@@ColumbiaB Sounds like "Taking Credit" to me.

[@ColumbiaB]

@@rabbiama2940 - Courtenay-Latimer was •given• credit, credit that she richly deserved.

[@bigbaz4632]

@@ColumbiaB Mhm, he did the work but hadn't recognized his find, she recognized it, and thank god she did otherwise that would be someone's supper.

[@brfisher1123]

Well, any other fish except the lungfish which is the closest living relative of us tetrapods rather than the coelacanth making the coelacanth the *second* closest relative to tetrapods after the lungfish.

[@nickojaysilvestre653]

Are they like guppies and platies for being live-bearers?

[@gabrielaviles2945]

Would the coelacanth be considered an intermediate between cartilaginous based fish and bony ray finned fishes

[@chopppacalamari]

Think about it. The living example proves that evolution is not a true theory. We have to re evaluate.

[@Tyranosaur678]

Shut up you creationist!​@@chopppacalamari

[@copper8346]

For years... for SO many years... I was 2000% sure it was "cole-a-canth".

[@dogsbecute]

i had it as "ko-eh-la-kenth"

[@duckynine9713]

i love these fish so much oh my god

[@cronialpaler]

Coelecanth "See-le-canth" Me: Kowe-le-kanth?

[@Illiaschwarz]

Was the ceolacanth already deafening before you took it out of the water

[@tristengrant]

What do you mean, deafening?

[@nikitbarapatre]

Some sharks, rays, snakes and insect are also ovoviviparous.

[@Randombeing555]

Why most of the the animals who did not evolved are all located around Madagascar?

[@EricHermickRust]

Question is xiphactinus is a giant tarpon?

[@timbenzel1751]

I still haven't caught this Pokémon

[@PsychedelicMakai]

under sootopolis, keep serching em, and you can trigger the regi trio

[@vomanman]

they are also in Lake Champlain

[@dylanhood6089]

Love the coelacanth.

[@lizardgod1016]

looks just like the ones in ark survival evolved

[@Astronopolis]

lizardgod 101 the game must have come first...

[@tbagspecialist8497]

It is!

[@leeeeeeeeeee012]

It is not edible, but in the game we hunt for meat

[@SomeGuy-lr7ms]

It’s is

[@luckypatel3531]

Here after getting news of the same fish caught alive 2 days ago

[@running9265]

Me too

[@luckypatel3531]

@@running9265 they found it near Madagascar

[@elnino8985]

Same

[@robbery892]

I didn’t know fishes was a word.. learn everyday

[@ICTOAU19]

It took you guys years? I just saw a shadow and caught 6 in 1 hour!

[@HenryChinaski614]

Very cool!

[@vierizona5772]

In Indonesia it also called "Raja Laut" Or "King of Sea"... I want to have a taste of that fish tbh

[@danmueller4021]

Tastes like candle wax

[@saiji9000]

i heard it's really oily and tastes terrible

[@abcdef2069]

dont you hear they are critically endangered, this is the reason people should be extinct

[@Whomobile]

I don't remember this "Meet the Team" video...

[@HankChang]

So what was it stored in?

[@SteverzesSon]

Animal Crossing brought me here.

[@Audrey-di6tb]

What you expect: BLAST FROM THE PAST what you get: no wait, its atleast a c+

[@bayumahendra1797]

Believe or not this fish still swimming in one of my country island lake

[@ivanvitowirawan5381]

My long long long long long long ancestors.. we finally met

[@alexistrebexis3195]

The only thing that sucks about finding this previously thought extinct fish, is any time I’m trying to tell someone how there’s no way the megalodon can still exist, they bring up this dam fish! Lol. “Well, they thought the coelacanth was extinct”. Yea, the coelacanth was about 1/100th the size of a megalodon, so….

[@anishsingh8240]

One more fish got in Madagascar

[@shishenliart]

So this is where the Petricanth from MHW is based off of.

[@bigbaz4632]

Mhm.

[@jackbrightside]

Bro is coelacanth are still around, imagine what else is still in the oceans, the mind wonders!

[@Dinckelburg]

There's just as blind guy walking around the bottom of the ocean wondering if there's life up there

[@thebaconpancake4818]

Does it taste good

[@AddieHughesVT]

Reading the title, all i can hear is the TF2 meet the mercenary jingle

[@mothermovementa]

Does it taste like fish

[@abroryrb7]

Next video: "Meet the Megalodon"

[@salvagemonster3612]

Yeah but WHAT DOES IT TASTE LIKE? And what wine goes best with it?

[@bigbaz4632]

Horrible apparently, slimy scales that secrete a mucus, and very oily and waxy flesh.

[@samvonrichthofen3715]

What does it taste like?

[@SlowedAcceleration]

A BLAST FROM THE PAST

[@hrdgms27]

I've learnt the existence of this fish through Digimon which in the show is called coelamon

[@tophealth429]

Animal crossing brought me here but I already knew about the fish prior to the game. Also I always pronounced it as " koleocanth" 😂

[@yabisity]

I pronounced it as koala canth....

[@opetimistic]

Thanks

[@lowcusyellow]

Yeah but how do they taste?

[@qZqnder]

I hope I'm not the only one who knew this before animal crossing

[@muizsp9525]

Me

[@iklachnietgenoeg8860]

Relicanth, I choose you! edit: forgot to add another o (chose, choose)

[@tl3139]

And it fries up beautifully with some English chips and a pint of Guinness. Cheers!

[@shanek6582]

What do they taste like

[@justarandomcroc5828]

YOUR KILLIN A ENDANGERED SPICEcES

[@thehumancanary131]

I wonder what they taste like?