Coelacanth (Latimeria chalumnae)

[kornypony]

they are beautiful

[sneezer]

What an incredible privilege to be able to see an evolutionary relic like this in the flesh.

[Rightbehindyou404]

It appears that few people here don't know what evolution really is...

[sayyid14]

evolution is fake

[TheAsdaf67]

is there any other fish\dinosaur undescovered???

[ShadowPhazonv2]

@TheAsdaf67 If they are undiscovered, how would we know?

[omarayabarus]

a wild relicanth appear!

[dilapsio]

Wow!!!!

[robyelsewhere5205]

Evolutionist hate this fish lol

[000pur3000]

Caught myself one of these in my town...in animal crossing.

[dancerd1234]

SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO­OOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

COOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO­OOOOL!

[stevenchambers37]

im just looking this up becuz i caught one in animal crossing city folk and i wanted to learn more bout it

[hiuli88]

asshole who think pokèmon when see this,retarded child that have'nt pass puberty age!This fish is so magic but stop talk on fucking pokèmon!!!

[ztv1997]

Wild RELICANTH appeared!

[jajacob410]

What an amazing animal. It's incredible that's its been around for nearly 400 million years unchanged!

[uknowispeaksense]

@jajacob410 Not entirely correct. Yes this order of fish has been around for a very long time but this is a different genus and species to the ones in the fossil record and they are somewhat different so to suggest they are 'unchanged' isn't accurate. It's a bit like saying our species isn't different to Homo habilis. Still an amazing animal though.

[LaurieTombRaiderFan]

omg it looks so cool

[rockybrazil1]

It was discovered in 1936, although it seemed to de extinguished with the dinossaurs. Only in 1988 it could be watchd alive, under the sea. A few years ago, another member of the family was discovered in Indonesia. Rockybrazil1

[unlimited647096]

How expensive would coelacanth sushi be? That would be like a dinosaur egg omelet.

[GreatKeny]

@unlimited647096 Dinosaur egg would be very cheap, considering all species of birds are in fact descendants of dinosaurs.

[KillerBee256]

@unlimited647096 They have very oily flesh, it doesn't taste very good.

[Komnenit]

Coelacanth; its great to have you back again, why did you took so long to re-appear?



[rsyvdlinde]

that mean a lot.........evolution doesn't exist!!!!

[Cabocoleman]

Give it some time, farm raise it and then it will be in your sushi bar at the cost of $100 a serving.

[Luculencia]

@Cabocoleman

I've read that they produce a load of oil that permeates their flesh and makes them taste foul so probably won't appear on sushi or sashami menus.

Then again that means someone actually tasted it to find out... ugh....

[Cabocoleman]

@Luculencia

Wow...they did?? LOL But don't forget what Japanese can do. They can eat poisonous Puffer fish and they have a sushi that involves rotten fish. Even though it is bad tasting, man y have found ways around that too. The Scandanavians eat rotten shark meat which reeks with urine and ammonia smell because Sharks don' t have an organ that allows them to urinate. They urinate by releasing it through their skin. But I think this may not be in any of our dinner table soon.

[blitzspeer]

I remember when this fish was shown as extinct and viewed only in lime stone impressions.I'm glad to see they're still around.

[KirbyPwnage]

So the coelacanth population still has a chance...

[papajino]

looks more like a latimeria menadoensis than a chalumnae to me -_- 

[LionGoddess1]

proof somebody lied about the age of the earth..

[leaf431]

I want one of these as a pet.

[papajino]

this fish is amazing... makes me wanna see one so badly.

[jdmejia2009]

pokeball go!!



[Kirunei666]

@jdmejia2009 Coelacanth fled lol XD

[COOLjuven123]

lol im 13 but i just remembered that it kinda looks like a pokemon xD

[ObeyTheSnarf]

@COOLjuven123 You mean the pokemon Relicanth?  It was based on this animal...

[croco96]

Do they appear when it is raining? [/accfreference]

[MrSam161879]

u can see this fish in sulawesi sea in indonesia....

[dubik981212]

Fajnie, że można zobaczyć i czegoś więcej dowiedzieć się o tak niezwykłych rybach ...polecam...ewelka...

[nightshadeah]

They are very tasty baked, and served with mustard sauce.

[nightshadeah]

They are very tasty baked, and served with mustard sauce.

[stepinside2007]

prove it...prove how a coelacanth is different from Latimeria. you cant just say it..prove it

[kingofbuds5000]

@stepinside2007 ok professor...you seem to act like you know -and these people that made the video do know as do i, they are both differant by dna and coloration, the chalumanee is blue white pink blotchs and the menadoensis is brown with white pink blotchs and gold flecks. Coelacanth is the blanket name for both ...latimeria menadoensis and latimera chalumanee are coelacanths ..but differant species. so your statement is dumb as i suspect so are you ....get off you tube and go back to school.

[morvelification]

@kingofbuds5000 oh snap you better get some aloe stepinside because dayum son YA GOT BURNT

[RedHo0d]

It looks like a Mexicanth.

[thejustin23g]

yuck tht fish look stanky!!!!

[KirbyPwnage]

relicanth! i choose you!

[dltanner99]

The Dare Island Enigma is a cryptozoology novel about two boys who find something strange on the beach one night see video book trailer

[easycurego]

Pure marvel! It moves with such a grace!

[RedDelly]

Oo why stop they´re developing

[Broemmelkamp69]

@RedDelly Evolution never stops ;)

[lekunberriko1]

Incredible fish!

[bernlin2000]

A living fossil...amazing stuff

[nozero1]

Amazing. Look at the way the thins move - much like a wrist.

[megawatt62]

next thing u know they tell u leopluaradon still exists

[megawatt62]

I once read a book and it said a bunch of fisherman discovered this fossil fish and scientits looked at it and a fossil and the fish and the fossil were the same! it turns out that a group of these dino-fishes had styed behind and lived in the indian oceans I think but now they are endangered because most people like them to eat.

[ilurkintheshadows454]

i like how the camera gets up in the coelacanths grill lol

[ZandWheet]

Yay :D

[DxHuman]

@hotlanta35 That's because its habitat hasn't changed.

[hotlanta35]

this is proof that animals may not go with the ever famous evolution theory...it has not changed at all in millions of years

[id0stuff]

@hotlanta35 if the animal is perfectly adapted to it's environment it won't have to evolve

[shuwukong]

one day they will tell you that megalodon are till alive

[canmoore]

momma?

[trilobight]

Amazing to think that we're very likely descended from a lobe-finned fish who might have looked quite a bit like this handsome chap!

[MrIpokeu]

it look so cool =)

[TheGreyCarnotaur]

Coelacanth will live forever to my fave fish TheGreyCarnotaurus

[CoelacanthsAura]

my fav animal EVER

[cryptoconnect]

no du, it's a cryptid.



[themushroom1000]

wow, this fish is endangered

[ramprashad29]

what a stunningly beautiful creature

[sendingmusic]

Respect

[thenewsk8erz]

these get huge and they are vicious

[death759]

@thenewsk8erz Is that a guess?

[thenewsk8erz]

@death759 noi researched it

[TheAchon]

ja der fisch ist geil er ist über 400mio jahre alt also schön hhut ziehen meister der überlebenskünste!

[diegopk2963]

eso no son como principios de 2 extremidades ..disculpen .. no tengo un ingles fluido..

[desasterz]

only two species alive today? Nooo. THat can't be... How did they srvive?

[popsickle59]

@desasterz two species, not two left.

[hotlanta35]

i bet it has a nasty bite

[SquirtleFan7]

A wild Relicanth appeared! Gotcha! Relicanth was caught!

[IGPXer]

@SquirtleFan7 Keep your retarted Pokemon comments to yourself.

[desasterz]

@SquirtleFan7 thats exactly what i was thinking. Next stop, Airodactil!

[bxzel0915]

one things for sure ! gotta catch em all ! pokemon !

[Gentkiller101]

At 0:16 it looks like it's trying to say

"Yes, I am an awesomely rare fish. F**k off Already"

[kojikid5]

@Gentkiller101

Actually to me it looked like is was trying to say "..."

[raeviliss3]

@Gentkiller101 fuck u

[blackopszombie1]

@Gentkiller101 ummmm ok

[psherminator]

damn thats ugly

[rougexknux]

lol at 0:47 the fish is like get that damn camra outta mah face

[geomango20]

nice. i thought they were all dead

[ikhlassayundi]

Legend Fish,,,,, 

[kontakostyler]

Beautiful fish.

[GeneticsFTW]

This is my favourite cousin.

[bugswak]

wow.. I don't believe I'd see one of these moving.. this fish is prehistoric some of these are in museums as fossils many people thought these are all dead before one was captured in Indonesia.. actually now there are two kinds caught today at present man this is awesome.. a living dinosaur.. and I also believe that crocodiles and alligators are also prehistoric..

[paceetrate]

@bugswak Actually the first was caught in South Africa in the 30's, the second was found more recently in Indonesia.

And while these animals are called "living fossils" (it's not a dinosaur :P) it's a bit of a misnomer. Like the crocodilians, they -are- changed from their ancient ancestors, just not as drastically (or not in ways that can be preserved in a fossil.) For example, modern coelacanths can give birth to live young instead of laying eggs!

[OpethNation]

Simply Beautiful

[Bjonna87]

0:23 proof of evolution right there...

[gummyboots]

@Bjonna87 yeah that fish totally has Arms/Wings

[zeeb12345]

can i poke it?

[3DTyrant]

"when this heavily built fish swm out of age of the reptiles into a South African trawler's net in 1938, it proved that desendants of a prehistoric speicies could exist undiscovered long after its fossil record had cme to an apparent end" taken from afew lines from "Rumors of Existence" by Matthew A. Bille, page 24

[3DTyrant]

what -I THINK- was to be the first live one caught that was recored, there may be another unknown, undocumented live one caught, I'm not sure

[mashoman123]

and they were thought to be extinct

[TheGreaterGood80]

Not our direct descendants, or our ancestors. Lobe fins gave rise to the tetrapods, but not the coelacanths. The ancestral lobe fin fish lived in freshwater

[SkydanceShinigami]

Our direct decendents. :3

[alexpre888]

wow they look tough...

[w20089]

wonder if coelacanth taste good...

[thunderthumbs83]

i was wondering that exact thing too ,lol.If they did taste good... it would be instant extinction for them.

[w20089]

maybe thats why they ran to the bottom of the sea....wanna try and get em?

[T3RRABYT3]

@thunderthumbs83 foo

[T3RRABYT3]

@w20089 foo

[w20089]

@titibyte foo

[highburycatherine]

wow! how big are they?

[MetriodKid1996]

A full adult grows up to 2m.

[usfansw]

Many years ago an underwater photographer got hold of a dead one and took some pictures. LIFE magazine bought the pictures thinking it was an alive fish and published them. This was about 1965. They were very rare and known only in the Comoros Islands.

[mrfear15]

theres alo of them left. well not alot but in lower hundreds

[AquaRing]

"lower hundreds" would mean they're critically endangered, they breed very slowly.

[ninjaxkai]

r these coelacanth videos real? at the beginning theres 2 of em and i thought there was only one left

[TheLegendaryNikko]

So they thought lol

[Leehofooks]

There are 2 species alive today.

[panda374]

@Leehofooks That fish looks like any second he is going to turn around and bite you.

[AssaultCrusader]

@Leehofooks Correction: there are 2 species CAPTURED ALIVE today.

[jcfbell3001]

mmmm, tasty coelacanths....get my sashimi knife, honey...

[TheRealDarkCircle]

What a wonder it is that you're here huh?

[Jenglotto]

well since you're commenting o this video doesn't that make YOU A NERD?!?!?!?!

[Yankeegohome4]

You're the most stupid human ever.

[GRimmEhx15]

Whoa! different than fishes in present!!!!!! this is not only one is alive. it may have many cocas! :DDDD thats my favorite fishes <33

[sir9integra9jr]

That's so cool, I love how they seem to have adapted to not having much oxygen by not moving very much. Do you know how often they have to breathe? Their gills didn't seem to be moving.