Latemeria(living fossil)

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[goldenkirby]

OMG ITS RELICANTH

[greentfox]

yes, it is coelacanth.

[NeoSilvanus]

I WILL CRUSH CREATIONISTS LIKE CLAMS ON MY BELLY

HAIL SCIENCE

[TheGzeus]

@gregrutz Not that much to know about the moon, though. it's a rock, it's in space, and it's dusty.

Next, identify the rocks. Done. Then the age of some stuff. Done.

It doesn't even have an atmosphere to interfere with orbital telescopes.

[gregrutz]

@goldenkirby We know more about the moon than we do the deep oceans.

[tijack13]

Coelacanth

[darkcronicle11]

@goldenkirby

LMFAO! random pokemon comment must be thumbed up!

[bnel890]

wow a video with the proper name of the fish

[gstalifetop]

u evalutionists r stupid idiots they r not instinct they lived with man for 6,000 years its just an unknown animal

[lidlehotti3]

there is something hypnotising about the movements of the fins. not a freaking care in the world for that creature. Hey, it's lived for over 50 million years. to hell with predators if time itself couldnt kill it.

[mustang4010]

What the hell goldenkirby lol u know how difficult it is to get funds to do all these projects? I give NASA kudos to all their achievements. And plus, it's not nearly as easy to explore space as it is to explore underwater...geeze.

[goldenkirby]

Just looking at this and i wanna say, how come we're not in space like we are underwater? this is ridiculous! we go to the moon and after that we're like, "Ok guys we got to the moon, lets sit with our thumbs in our asses forever now!" we're all about putting up a new satellite (WOW!) or getting a new lab into space (AMAZE!) when we could have sent at least a dozen or so rockets, which would have been no doubt improved compared to the predecessor... GET OFF YOUR ASS NASA

[altosax1st]

Beautiful

[NGC1350]

Wait, wait wait! Look carefully it might start using its fins to walk on the bottom of the ocean floor.

Give it a few more minutes, or days, maybe years, or centuries, millennium's, just wait and you will see.

[mustang4010]

ROFL! relicanth from pokemon ur so funny!

[lichichun]

good

[deathgod646]

if you can find a coelacanth im pretty sure there should be at least 1 megladon it would make my day

[FabienneLovesBeauty]

humanity sucks

[blackeye240]

its completely retarded to try to say this might be endangered considering they live too deep to get an accurate number of them

the oceans too big and deep for current technology to even come close to exploring which is why some people believe that the megaladon may still exist

[SevenSixTwoNato]

Actually, similar strategies in nature DO create organisms that live for a very long time. The reason stem cells aren't created indefinitely is due to energy consumption, and is not sustainable in the long term, or at all with a lower metabolism.

Additionally, propagation and replacement of neurons is not yet very well-understood.

Long story short, nothing lives forever because energy is finite. Available resources need to be recycled.

[SevenSixTwoNato]

Well, and because it lives deep enough to be very infrequently caught. And its flesh is not very good for eating.

We don't yet know much about coelacanths to be able to evaluate whether they're endangered. The current consensus seems to be that they have a very small population in the first place, since they bear few offspring (and bear them alive), grow slowly, and subsist in a very nutrient-poor environment.

[Leeroy002]

the only reason that its still around is because its tooo ugly to eat lol

[xxDrewSkeezyxx]

they way it move's is amazing

[knightscum07]

Oh goody a coelacanth! *sniff* oh I'm sorry...Seeing this made me cry. Its like seeing a memento of a dead friend.