Coelacanths

[Sarawak]

All posts in this thread must in some way be related to coelacanths.

A Zanzibar population was discovered in 2007.

[KaiYeves]

Darn, ToSeeked!
The existance of coelacanths is often used by cryptozoologists to justify "why I spend all my life and money looking for prehistoric creatures and don't have a real job to support you, mother."

[tdvance]

The Coelacanth is an extinct fish that is no longer extinct because the Regius Professor Chronotis, under funding from King George III, built a time machine in his (out of his) flat and went back to save it. It had the unintended consequence of causing the dodo to become extinct. Since then, his main use of his time machine was to go back and watch TV programs he missed, since he could never figure out how to program his VCR.

[Sarawak]

Tdvance makes up very outrageous stories about coelacanths.

[tdvance]

not quite--Douglas Adams made that one up.

[KaiYeves]

In the movie Atlantis: The Lost Empire, Mr. Whitmore had two coelacanths in an aquarium in his study. As the movie is set in 1914, this is a bit of a goof on the part of the filmmakers.

"His fish are freaking me out." -My brother

[Dragon Star]

A preserved Coelacanth specimen in located in the Natural History Museum in London.

[Sarawak]

The coelacanths from the population discovered in 1938 are blue, but the Sulawesi coelacanths are brown.

[KaiYeves]

The Pokemon Relicanth is based on the Coelacanth. This has been confirmed by the official makers of Pokemon.

[Parrothead]

I like the instrumental piece called "Coelacanth" by Shriekback. :)

[Dragon Star]

Because Coelacanth haven't changed for literally millions of years, they are considered "living fossils". :)

[KaiYeves]

Because Coelacanth is so hard to spell, they have the popular nickname "dinofish".

[Dragon Star]

Often times, believers of Loch Ness point to the Coelacanth as evidence of a possible existence.

[KaiYeves]

The coelacanth is briefly mentioned in the evolution sequence during the second episode of Cosmos.

[KaiYeves]

Many people mispronounce "coelacanth" as "see-lee-oh-can-th", when it's really just "see-lo-can-th".

[man on the moon]

I once pronounced coelacanth as "ko-leo-canth".

Oops!

I don't need coelacanth to believe in Loch Ness Monster! :D

[KaiYeves]

I once pronounced coelacanth as "ko-leo-canth".
Oops!
Don't feel bad.
The screenwriters of Atlantis pronounced "coelacanth" wrong in the commentary, but Sagan said it right.

[Halcyon Dayz]

Depends on what language you speak. :lol:

coe·la·canth - from Greek koilos hollow + akantha spine

[mfumbesi]

I've always secretly wondered how a coelacanth would taste.

[KaiYeves]

Another common nickname for coelacanths is "Old Four Legs".

[Sarawak]

The coelacanth thread seems to have died out.

[KaiYeves]

That is ironic, as coelacanths are known as "living fossils."

[KaiYeves]

Coelacanths did not cause The Tunguska Event!

I love intertextuality!

[Noclevername]

Coelacanths did not cause The Tunguska Event!

I love intertextuality!

So do "you know whats". :whistle:

[KaiYeves]

There is a coelacanth model at AMNH in the Hall of Ocean Life.

[Sarawak]

That is ironic, as coelacanths are known as "living fossils."

Maybe this thread will disappear for millions of years, and be discovered after everyone thought it had become extinct.

[KaiYeves]

You can click here (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coelacanth) to read the Wikipedia article about the Coelacanth.

[Sarawak]

Is there much inequality in coelecanth society?

[KaiYeves]

I don't think coelacanths have a society.

[Sarawak]

Are coelacanths anarchists?

[KaiYeves]

No, but I don't think coelacanths have any more intelligence than most fish.

[Noclevername]

No, but I don't think coelacanths have any more intelligence than most fish.

But fish are smart, they spend all their time in schools! :D

[man on the moon]

But fish are smart, they spend all their time in schools! :D

Many humans do too, yet we spend our time talking about coelacanths... :|

;)

[Sticks]

The existance of coelacanths is often used by cryptozoologists to justify "why I spend all my life and money looking for prehistoric creatures and don't have a real job to support you, mother."


I thought they were used by the creationist community to point out possible holes in Evolutionary theory.

Tell the cryptozoologists to get their own example, like the Eye-Eye :naughty:

[KaiYeves]

I think that's spelled Aye-Aye.
While you might not guess it from the pictures, coelacanths are really big- more than four feet long!

[Sarawak]

Perhaps coelacanth enthusiasts, through selective breeding, will produce varieties of many sizes and shapes.

[KaiYeves]

A few days ago, I had a chat with the 'bot called CHAOS about coelacanths.

[Noclevername]

Just how do you seal a canth, anyway?

[KaiYeves]

Coelacanths were featured in an issue of the magazine Owl in the comic Adventures of the Mighty Mites.

[Sarawak]

Just how do you seal a canth, anyway?

You canth seal a canth.

[Sarawak]

Coelacanths can't talk.

[Sticks]

And like them this thread has been dragged up from the depths after being long thought extinct

[Sarawak]

And like them this thread has been dragged up from the depths after being long thought extinct

Appropriate, isn't it?