Finding the Coelacanth | DinoFish

A team of divers off the coast of South Africa comes face to face with a Coelacanth.

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Finding the Coelacanth | DinoFish

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[dariscar]

Diver: "it's looking right at me!"
Coelacanth:"Look at this guy diving in a button up shirt and khakis"

[brfisher]

To think that the coelacanth is actually more closely related to the men filming it than it is to any of the other fish swimming in the ocean with it is insane!

[aeronlangheim]

I remember when I was a kid, I'd read about these things in books about dinosaurs, and seeing footage of a real one is rather surreal

[playanakobi]

2:00 it's face is adorable. And the way the fins move and how fast it changed direction is amazing!

[bleikrsound]

Amazing record of a creature that has survived 500 million years unchanged.
We must respect this form of early life.

[andrewtucker]

'Look, just fuck off with that light will you?'

[enkiimuto]

"Are u getting this?"
"No, I forgot to press record"

[DinoJake]

It's surprisingly adorable.

I wish to hug it.

[ayer]

This animal is actually breathtaking I caught myself looking in awe at just how majestic it is and it feels like it is straight out of prehistoric times completely unchanged like a living relic

[DeathbyPixels]

It’s so cool that Animal Crossing is helping to introduce people to these amazing animals haha.

[Sillyguy]

I love how one diver is wearing a diving suit, and the other diver is wearing a normal outfit.

[residentsleeper]

I bet it didn't take them nearly as long to find it as it did for me to get one in Animal Crossing.

[nisyturtle]

They're like the underwater paparazzi.

[MrSeth]

The oldest known coelacanth fossils are over 410 million years old. Coelacanths were thought to have become extinct in the late cretaceous around 66 million years ago, but were rediscovered in 1938 off the coast of South Africa.

[RadRaptor]

It's amazing that despite the fact we have fossils of these guys, they managed to of years....living besides the most ancient of creatures

[Soundillusionsxyz]

Is it weird if I get a little teary-eyed when I watch this?. I just thought that for this specie to survive for so long is just beautiful, it is a wonder. I hope they are left alone to reproduce and restore their numbers. I mean, maybe there's far more than we think, humans haven't been here too long, nothing compared to Coelacanths.

[lemur]

They're actually so cool. Discovering they still lived was literally like finding a t-rex alive today.

[BabeDollB]

The cheesy voice over killed it. "Wow, look at that! are you getting that? wow, those fins"

[flygonification]

me when it starts raining on my animal crossing island

[rolliecarranza]

15, 000 bells there ladies and gentlemen