Inside the Collections: Ichthyology at AMNH

[dodocrest]

Video would have been better if the music wasn't playing while she was talking.

[aolimaictio]

Nice!

[chingstahpowah123]

does anyone know what liquid these fishs are contained in?

[stacycfarina]

@chingstahpowah123 Most of them are probably in Ethanol (~70%), especially that coelacanth specimen (ethanol is pretty harmless to dunk your hand in). Fish specimens used to be stored in formalin (4-10% Formaldehyde) before the health risks were known, so it's likely that in an old collection such as the one at the AMNH, there are at least a few still stored in formalin.

[Auschwitz2012]

it seems they have everything i wounder if they have a Mexican in embalming fluid in there somewhere

[featheredmusic]

@Auschwitz2012 oh man LOL best comment i read this year



[Auschwitz2012]

@featheredmusic LOL

[soclives182]

thank

[Shaunt1]

Was that fish she touched real?

[Transfectingood]

@Shaunt1 Alright I have to ask, how is that you thought out of all the real fish that they have to talk about, that a museum of natural history would make a fish that doesn't actually exist and then talk about it instead of all the real fish that they've got?

[Shaunt1]

@Transfectingood I don't know I guess it was the only one I was interested in. Plus they didn't focus on any of the others.

[JHMOM1]

@Shaunt1

Yes, it is real. It is a Coelacanth... a fish once thought extinct, but recently found alive.

[giga39490]

nice