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  • A team of divers off the coast of South Africa comes face to face with a Coelacanth.
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  • @dariscar5218
    @dariscar5218 6 лет назад +815

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

    • @NurseSnow2U
      @NurseSnow2U 3 года назад +19

      🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

    • @plex58
      @plex58 10 месяцев назад +26

      The fish is like "do you mind? Im trying to exist here."

    • @joshriley2936
      @joshriley2936 17 дней назад +1

      Imagine if all fish harshly judge your look whenever they see you, and they not only can't speak but wouldn't say anything even if they could. They just silently judge you with their eyes

    • @CrotchChop321
      @CrotchChop321 6 дней назад

      For real tho. Homie went diving in business casual

  • @playanakobi4407
    @playanakobi4407 3 года назад +375

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

  • @aeronlangheim3462
    @aeronlangheim3462 5 лет назад +1477

    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

    • @zs1dfr
      @zs1dfr 3 года назад +42

      I have a copy of the original book, called "Old Four-legs" written about the Coelacanth and Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer, and written by Prof JLB Smith, renowned ichthyologist of the time. The book is surely long since out of print! If you ever find a copy, snap it up. Very dry and lacking in literary skill, but very exciting!

    • @bodhigough6196
      @bodhigough6196 Год назад +3

      I’m the 500th like

    • @anthonygordon9483
      @anthonygordon9483 Год назад +32

      Its the oldest living relative to all land creatures. back fins for legs and feet, front fins for arms and hands, a tail, gills which mammals and reptiles lost on land. jaws and teeth for chewing. They even carry their eggs internally through prenatal development and give birth to live young. They have all the properties of a land creature in water.

    • @cyberlord645
      @cyberlord645 Год назад +13

      For something about 400 million years old it's insane to see

    • @jaybanks2709
      @jaybanks2709 Год назад +3

      They lived after the flood of Noah so much more

  • @brfisher1123
    @brfisher1123 Год назад +584

    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!

    • @SVSXXVW
      @SVSXXVW Год назад +70

      That's what it tells other fishes in a heated rap battle.

    • @TjoaWeiHan
      @TjoaWeiHan 6 месяцев назад +5

      How is it so??

    • @EclipseAudioLabs4806
      @EclipseAudioLabs4806 6 месяцев назад +18

      @@TjoaWeiHanthat fish you are looking at is about 330 to 450 million years old brother it was thought to be extinct but was found in the 1930s I believe but yes that what your looking at is very close to what humans would have been before what we are now

    • @TjoaWeiHan
      @TjoaWeiHan 6 месяцев назад +3

      @@EclipseAudioLabs4806 so basically, Coelacanths are mermaids?

    • @brfisher1123
      @brfisher1123 6 месяцев назад +37

      @@TjoaWeiHan Coelacanths are part of the sarcopterygian clade of vertebrates which also includes the lungfish and the tetrapods like salamanders, lizards, birds, whales and us humans whereas all of the other saltwater bony fish are actinopterygians! 🤯
      Lungfish are the only other extant non-tetrapod sarcopterygians, but they are only found in freshwater.

  • @MrSeth166
    @MrSeth166 3 года назад +348

    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.

    • @dmeads5663
      @dmeads5663 2 года назад +23

      And they are nearly unchanged compared to their fossils.

    • @-MochiWochi-
      @-MochiWochi- 2 года назад +16

      Did you know?: Coelacanths are 42% related to humans?!

    • @joselitopuzon5620
      @joselitopuzon5620 Год назад +2

      @@-MochiWochi- how?

    • @-MochiWochi-
      @-MochiWochi- Год назад +6

      I actually can't remember

    • @mateoechavez4276
      @mateoechavez4276 Год назад +8

      ​​​​@@joselitopuzon5620 because some of the living beings came to the Ocean some of fishes walk on land and evolve to mammals reptile etc.

  • @residentsleeper5678
    @residentsleeper5678 8 лет назад +5072

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

    • @themr64
      @themr64 7 лет назад +210

      I hate when one "rare" fish is like super easy to catch and then there's others that are pretty much extinct in your town xD

    • @leafywashere4929
      @leafywashere4929 6 лет назад +54

      Violent Talent really? We have like a billion of them in ark you can have one

    • @pipperoonie
      @pipperoonie 5 лет назад +27

      I caught 3 in one day.

    • @swopiscus5836
      @swopiscus5836 5 лет назад +5

      TheLeafyClone lmao tbh I see more saber tooth salmon in ark than these fellas

    • @pipperoonie
      @pipperoonie 5 лет назад +5

      @@leafywashere4929
      Thanks, now I don't have to die of hypothermia and drowning in survival evolved.

  • @enkiimuto1041
    @enkiimuto1041 8 лет назад +1389

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

    • @ChodeMaster
      @ChodeMaster 5 лет назад +4

      @Baraka Hagatanga It doesn't

    • @wasabimir952
      @wasabimir952 5 лет назад +3

      Baraka Hagatanga *vegans don’t read Baraka’s comment*

    • @rajaceratops6222
      @rajaceratops6222 5 лет назад +1

      @Baraka Hagatanga it will but hard to digest cuz it contains high amounts of oil, wax esters, urea, etc.
      it can also cause diarrhea

    • @AeroZeppelin-rb4pt
      @AeroZeppelin-rb4pt 4 года назад +2

      *Look at those fins see how they move*

    • @coolraygaming
      @coolraygaming 4 года назад

      Nah eating the fish is basically eating the last lion.

  • @DinoJake
    @DinoJake 9 лет назад +817

    It's surprisingly adorable.
    I wish to hug it.

    • @Saucemeister07
      @Saucemeister07 5 лет назад +60

      Also it's older than dinosaurs

    • @iamcenna7153
      @iamcenna7153 5 лет назад +19

      @slim shady it's a prehistoric fish, so maybe it is

    • @chiyunghui6976
      @chiyunghui6976 5 лет назад +13

      Just buy a plushie one in the Numazu Port Deep Sea Aquarium.

    • @erick289777
      @erick289777 5 лет назад +39

      @I have Cancer Dinosaurs appeared around 50 million years ago, during the Triassic. These bois appeared during the Devonian, 400 million years ago. They survived the greatest mass extinction ever, the Permian.

    • @adamd6648
      @adamd6648 4 года назад +2

      Erick Villalva wait what???? 50 million years ago u sure you didn’t have a typo their?

  • @51ayer54
    @51ayer54 4 года назад +302

    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

    • @Link2000o
      @Link2000o Год назад

      well its not the same evolved 62 new ways but mostly the same

  • @bleikrsound6127
    @bleikrsound6127 5 лет назад +557

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

    • @JasonJBrunet
      @JasonJBrunet 2 года назад +64

      Just to clarify, it has not survived 500 million years unchanged. Coelacanths are an entire order of fish, and we have two species of coelacanth living today. There have been many, many different species of coelacanth, with all different kinds living all kinds of ways. Think of another order of fish, catfish. There's not just one species of catfish, there's like 3000 of them. And in the 100 million years they've existed there have been many, many more. Same with coelacanths at one time.

    • @bleikrsound6127
      @bleikrsound6127 2 года назад +6

      @@JasonJBrunetOne would expect differentiation over such a long span of time and with divergent ecosystems.
      On my studio property in WV, there are fossils of lycopods larger than modern pine, and today their ancestors grow in the same location but they are only a few inches tall.

    • @bubblegumgun3292
      @bubblegumgun3292 2 года назад

      because there is no evolution

    • @MonsieurFeshe
      @MonsieurFeshe 2 года назад +2

      @@JasonJBrunetLMAO TY

    • @accidentallyaj5138
      @accidentallyaj5138 2 года назад +4

      @DigitalAlpha what

  • @Soundillusions94xyz
    @Soundillusions94xyz 10 лет назад +1643

    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.

    • @dylanbourassa4507
      @dylanbourassa4507 10 лет назад +136

      As a matter of fact this fish is critically endangered.

    • @hortonnoah44
      @hortonnoah44 9 лет назад +97

      I know right? i find these fish downright amazing. I sincerely hope that humans don't end their journey.

    • @jacksim5759
      @jacksim5759 9 лет назад +28

      Dylan Bourassa Aw geez they are? I thought that might be the case but.. damn, now i'm all bummed out

    • @dylanbourassa4507
      @dylanbourassa4507 9 лет назад +7

      Jack Sim It's true. They are endangered.

    • @atomicskull6405
      @atomicskull6405 6 лет назад +139

      They are full of oils high in urea and indigestible wax esters. Nobody eats them because they cause gastrointestinal distress and explosive projectile diarrhea. They have no natural predators for the same reason, anything that tries to eat them will get violently sick.
      These are not "primitive" fish at all btw they have some fairly advanced features not found in any other modern fish. Obviously they've been doing some evolving in the last 60 million years. Same basic design but with a lot of improvements added on.

  • @Silly6373guy
    @Silly6373guy 8 лет назад +824

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

    • @SiriusBlackBuscus
      @SiriusBlackBuscus 6 лет назад +54

      ChickenTato I’m glad someone else thought that was strange haha

    • @SmashSSL
      @SmashSSL 6 лет назад +5

      ikr XD

    • @farah6258
      @farah6258 6 лет назад +14

      Saw that too and I think it's denim wear! 😂

    • @noir6492
      @noir6492 2 года назад +3

      He's the cameraman no wonder

    • @professionalhotgarbage
      @professionalhotgarbage 2 года назад +51

      When your custom character appears in a cutscene

  • @andrewtucker94
    @andrewtucker94 8 лет назад +302

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

  • @RadRaptor152
    @RadRaptor152 4 года назад +164

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

  • @DeathbyPixels
    @DeathbyPixels 4 года назад +719

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

    • @jackson5116
      @jackson5116 4 года назад +6

      "helping" from a series that goes back to 2001? You mean HELPED as the series goes back to 2001!

    • @link7769
      @link7769 4 года назад +21

      @@jackson5116 you know it still going right?? And new animals are being added to the game :I

    • @somethingwithbungalows
      @somethingwithbungalows 4 года назад

      Lol, Dog Island taught me bout’ em back in 2011-2012-2013
      They’re cute fish tho I wanna swim with one

    • @mxlonfn
      @mxlonfn 4 года назад +1

      Yeah

    • @kamokkan
      @kamokkan 4 года назад

      Like how Transformers introduced us to unique vehicles?

  • @n0isyturtle
    @n0isyturtle 6 лет назад +476

    They're like the underwater paparazzi.

  • @EverDownward
    @EverDownward 8 лет назад +1155

    A creature we thought had been extinct since prehistoric times is actually still alive, and almost unchanged from its original time on this planet.
    Fuck, Earth is amazing.

    • @D0kito
      @D0kito 8 лет назад +37

      Except that we got politicians, Trump, and stupid people who turned the place to a Trash can.
      I agree that Earth, is really amazing, except that ^

    • @D0kito
      @D0kito 8 лет назад

      Lord of Light ^

    • @tiretalkstoomuch8781
      @tiretalkstoomuch8781 8 лет назад +14

      The FBI is watching this comment section

    • @D0kito
      @D0kito 8 лет назад +7

      Haxanthegreat I'll wack their ass with a dildo if they watched us.

    • @tiretalkstoomuch8781
      @tiretalkstoomuch8781 8 лет назад

      Aw hell ya

  • @NancyDorothy
    @NancyDorothy 9 лет назад +293

    "Holy fish sticks! I caught a coelacanth! Am I saying it right?" -New Leaf

    • @bluntash3794
      @bluntash3794 9 лет назад +4

      Caught one 10 minutes ago!!😅

    • @wilsonblauheuer6544
      @wilsonblauheuer6544 9 лет назад +1

      NancyDorothy sea low canth

    • @stephenjohnson8267
      @stephenjohnson8267 9 лет назад +1

      Yo ive like 3 of those on Animal crossing already

    • @VinchVolt
      @VinchVolt 8 лет назад

      Since starting _New Leaf_ I've caught a total of 13 coelacanths so far.

    • @turtletamer6886
      @turtletamer6886 7 лет назад +2

      @game4brains 123 13?! Wow. You must be a god then.

  • @samuelcastillo8381
    @samuelcastillo8381 4 года назад +1928

    Is anyone else randomly getting this in their recommendations? And plays New horizons?

  • @flygonification548
    @flygonification548 4 года назад +463

    me when it starts raining on my animal crossing island

    • @saltcookies.mp4755
      @saltcookies.mp4755 4 года назад +7

      allie FINALLY I found someone 😂

    • @pappi8338
      @pappi8338 4 года назад +3

      I'm fishing for one now scuba diving

    • @christinekozlik7883
      @christinekozlik7883 4 года назад +1

      I caught 6 in one day and now I have 9

    • @LittleCatfish
      @LittleCatfish 4 года назад

      just caught one a few hours ago

    • @spiritedchung5926
      @spiritedchung5926 4 года назад

      I caught 2 unexpectedly in 1 day during the rain. The first giant fish i got was the oarfish

  • @lemur366
    @lemur366 12 лет назад +191

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

  • @SirDave
    @SirDave 9 лет назад +159

    Beautiful!
    Random, but I can't get over the fact that the one dude went diving in regular clothes, in a Ocean, with God knows what other kind of other creatures down there.

    • @themilkman5696
      @themilkman5696 8 лет назад +6

      no sea creature, that we know of, was bigger than the blue whale. but there are possibilitys.

    • @Amatersuful
      @Amatersuful 8 лет назад +3

      the ocean is still undiscovered

    • @themilkman5696
      @themilkman5696 8 лет назад +5

      yeah, but wouldn't big sea creatures have been found already?
      They can't be in the deep, theres no food down there.

    • @SirDave
      @SirDave 8 лет назад +2

      I'm personally not qualified to say they would or wouldn't. What I can say is, you never know the way creatures adapt what could be hidden from us. Mime_Jr

    • @tylerthomas2956
      @tylerthomas2956 3 года назад +5

      It was a power move

  • @ASTRAYGREENFRAME
    @ASTRAYGREENFRAME 9 лет назад +458

    . Coelacanth, check
    . Frilled shark, check
    . Giant squid, check
    Alright. LETS BRING ON T.REX!!!!

  • @divinephanes
    @divinephanes 4 года назад +34

    I think what's really neat about this animal is the fact that it's top fin is able to move on it's own along with the other fins, so enamouring

  • @clamskaboo5120
    @clamskaboo5120 6 лет назад +46

    Absolutely stunning, nothing left to say. It looks just like the other prehistoric fishes you’d find in a museum. Also resembles a lungfish too if you look at the facial structure.

  • @dekunutted2491
    @dekunutted2491 9 лет назад +375

    Okay, all you need now is a Wailord, and you go and awaken the Regi trio.

  • @corbanwalker4476
    @corbanwalker4476 8 лет назад +32

    I know that this is a creature thats been around for millions of years, but I thought the most amazing part was the pattern it had on its scales. it was beautiful

  • @MakoRuu
    @MakoRuu 9 лет назад +835

    Real men dive in khakis.

    • @jamtartzz
      @jamtartzz 8 лет назад +1

      no

    • @jamtartzz
      @jamtartzz 8 лет назад +2

      no

    • @outerrealm
      @outerrealm 7 лет назад +23

      sonny, this page is for grown ups. stop calling people names, it's not nice. now run along back to your 5 year old friends and play nice. if you behave maybe we'll let you try on your big boy pants next birthday

    • @dominus_diamond
      @dominus_diamond 6 лет назад

      @@jamtartzz lie

    • @hlessiavedon
      @hlessiavedon 5 лет назад +4

      i now this is a very late reply, but thank you for this. His death still makes me tear up, in my opinion, one of the greatest humans ever to live on this planet.

  • @turonz3633
    @turonz3633 4 года назад +92

    “Think positive, be a Coela-CAN” - ACNH

    • @piglin469
      @piglin469 3 года назад +1

      WHAT why ohh the cringe

    • @turonz3633
      @turonz3633 3 года назад +4

      animal crossing reference but ok

  • @Meta_20_
    @Meta_20_ 4 года назад +293

    I love how this comment section is filled with Pokémon and animal crossing fans

    • @glokk40sam
      @glokk40sam 4 года назад +6

      Im both hehe 😚

    • @pappi8338
      @pappi8338 4 года назад +1

      You could just say Nintendo fans

    • @naylofu697
      @naylofu697 4 года назад +3

      Wait Pokemon? Whats that about? I only knew about animal crossing and ark for coelacanths.

    • @maryjanehansen7947
      @maryjanehansen7947 4 года назад +2

      Yeah where's the coelacanth in Pokémon

    • @ddg47tico
      @ddg47tico 4 года назад +9

      @@maryjanehansen7947 relicanth is a pokemon based on this creature

  • @raystrife234
    @raystrife234 8 лет назад +478

    relicanth. NOW GO FIND REGIROCK!

  • @FrederikEngelmand
    @FrederikEngelmand 9 лет назад +3141

    that fake voice over is cringeworthy

    • @mogetfog
      @mogetfog 9 лет назад +158

      Frederik Olsen im so glad im not the only one to notice that.

    • @TheMsr1997
      @TheMsr1997 9 лет назад +90

      Frederik Olsen yeah, annoying as fuck

    • @danthaman7777
      @danthaman7777 9 лет назад +33

      Frederik Olsen how is it fake? it matter of fact IS a voice over?

    • @Intranetusa
      @Intranetusa 9 лет назад +285

      +danthaman7777
      Underwater divers with a scuba breathing apparatus in their mouths can't talk.

    • @chophousefilms4334
      @chophousefilms4334 9 лет назад +72

      +Frederik Olsen It's shame because the beautiful footage is ruined by the awful ADR... at least dirty it up a little guys

  • @Tazzarinaa
    @Tazzarinaa 12 лет назад +58

    I saw this on TV and immediately knew how powerful it was to see this, this fish has been around for so long, so many species both land and water have came and had their eras and gone extinct but this fish is still here.. just amazing to see. I jst hope hmans don't mess up the deepest parts of the ocean like we love to mess up the land and the more shallow waters

  • @Scipio227
    @Scipio227 4 года назад +10

    The dude dressed up like he's about to meet that coelacanth's parents for the first time really makes this

  • @Sugarlady911
    @Sugarlady911 3 года назад +14

    If these species still exist, i don't think it's not impossible to find more prehistoric marine reptiles down there. It's amazing and exciting.

  • @joechampion73
    @joechampion73 11 лет назад +30

    I remember researching this fish from 2nd grade when i saw it in a book which cataloged all dinosaurs. Couldn't even pronounce the name then but i studied throughout school and after. It was supposed to be extinct for millions of years! Just incredible! I want to travel to africa and see one now

  • @oogalook
    @oogalook 8 лет назад +49

    After hearing the name as a kid, I spent years rolling it around my mouth without any idea what animal it referred to. It must be one of the most beautiful, most perfectly enchanting words I have ever had the pleasure to know. I would find myself muttering it reflectively at times, in a sort of reverent trance, chanting those beautiful and strange syllables. The silent letters and ambiguous 'c's slide around to make the word come alive- I sought to pronounce them as no man had pronounced before, groping in the etymological void for meaning. Finally last year, I looked the thing up on Wikipedia. I cannot describe my rapture. Such a fitting beast for the name I could never have imagined. Ancient and mysterious, a fish which should be extinct. A fish unchanged in shape since its cousin won the race onto dry land. A fish almost gaudy with beautiful limbs and scales, and all the more adept in its element. Lurking beneath the world, a lonely relic lost and forgotten among the tides of seas and ages. I pray for them to live forever as an eternal reminder to the world of its own youth.

    • @wardendios2612
      @wardendios2612 8 лет назад +4

      weirdo much

    • @rosaiglarsh9987
      @rosaiglarsh9987 2 года назад +4

      That's a beautiful reflection. Thank you.

    • @emilywood77
      @emilywood77 Год назад

      bro what

    • @Cat-yx7xc
      @Cat-yx7xc Год назад +4

      Bros english teachers are proud 😭😭

    • @captainchris817
      @captainchris817 6 месяцев назад

      @@Cat-yx7xcas they should be that’s one of the best comments I’ve ever seen

  • @kingkazma3246
    @kingkazma3246 9 лет назад +96

    Life, finds a way.

    • @bre1134
      @bre1134 9 лет назад +5

      Omg yessssss Jurassic Park reference XD

    • @kingkazma3246
      @kingkazma3246 9 лет назад +2

      Bre Bennett Heheh.

    • @davecarlson9584
      @davecarlson9584 9 лет назад +1

      nice you guys. I enjoyed this clean laugh. lol :)

    • @Manic_Mitch.official
      @Manic_Mitch.official 8 лет назад +3

      +King Kazma BAAh BAAh BAAAHH BAAAHH Baaah BAH BAH BAAAH BAAH BAAH

    • @raptorious7090
      @raptorious7090 7 лет назад +6

      Hahahahar...... harrrrrrah hahaha
      Heh - HAh Ha. (Cant do the iconic Ian Malcolm laugh)

  • @ParkeetheManEDITS
    @ParkeetheManEDITS 3 месяца назад +2

    “Blast From the Past!”
    “I caught a Coelacanth! Think postitive. Be a coela-CAN!”

  • @TheGloriousLobsterEmperor
    @TheGloriousLobsterEmperor Год назад +7

    I fully intend to go South Africa hopefully within the next five years specifically to go diving and hopefully see one in person. They are my favourite fish and one of my favourite animals, and I do not want to miss the opportunity to see one since they are critically endangered. It will require a tonne of training and equipment, but my life would not be complete without seeing one of these masterpieces.

    • @Link2000o
      @Link2000o Год назад

      well its not the same evolved 62 new ways but mostly the same

    • @Sun-God2
      @Sun-God2 Год назад

      It is literally your Ancestor bro

  • @mustafayazici6605
    @mustafayazici6605 11 лет назад +59

    HOLY FISH STICKS! I caught a coelacanth! Am I saying that right?

  • @thegeekfanatic
    @thegeekfanatic 10 лет назад +249

    Quick throw an Ultra Ball

    • @jersho5383
      @jersho5383 10 лет назад +3

      T_T

    • @memeson8414
      @memeson8414 10 лет назад

      I thought the same thing!

    • @caramelshiba
      @caramelshiba 10 лет назад +1

      On this, go for a master ball.

    • @ccghidorah1
      @ccghidorah1 10 лет назад +31

      Come on guys, it's under the sea use a dive ball

    • @memeson8414
      @memeson8414 10 лет назад +8

      This thing took too long so I used a Timer Ball.

  • @16mmDJ
    @16mmDJ 8 лет назад +80

    aw it just wants to be left alone

  • @MagitekOmega
    @MagitekOmega Год назад +2

    Animal Crossing introduced me, and these ancient creatures are just breathtaking, no doubt they're my favorite fish. I'd love to get the chance to make a dive like this for such an encounter.

  • @annanardo2358
    @annanardo2358 5 месяцев назад +1

    Had I been diving there I most certainly would have been doing cartwheels !! I just can't imagine seeing with my own eyes a Coelecanth . I would bow to it, I would be honored to be in its very presence !!🙂

  • @FalloutSiimsMCYo
    @FalloutSiimsMCYo 9 лет назад +38

    IT'S THAT BIG!?
    oh hell no, I'll stay in the pool thank you.

    • @TheRandomHighFive
      @TheRandomHighFive 9 лет назад +11

      Colonel Sanders stick to the chickens man

    • @user-go6lx8lg1h
      @user-go6lx8lg1h 9 лет назад +2

      It doesn't even look that big

    • @TheAmericanPrometheus
      @TheAmericanPrometheus 8 лет назад +1

      It used to be way bigger back when dinosaurs were around

    • @martyshwaartz971
      @martyshwaartz971 7 лет назад +1

      It's incredible when an animal gets it so right that it no longer needs to change

    • @juanponceman4337
      @juanponceman4337 6 лет назад +1

      The largest species was around 8 to 10 feet long

  • @samkeizer2269
    @samkeizer2269 11 лет назад +15

    419 million years ago it was said to be extinct, but here it is. Amazing.

  • @iii1031
    @iii1031 10 лет назад +56

    Forever Alone for 419 million.

  • @LovleyLemonade
    @LovleyLemonade 4 года назад +4

    It’s amazing that this beautiful fish species is still around.

  • @LadyTanukiTime
    @LadyTanukiTime 2 года назад +1

    Most memorable thing i saw in a museum as a kid. This delights me.

  • @bentennyson2398
    @bentennyson2398 10 лет назад +472

    They thought this was extinct and were proven wrong, so anyone up for finding megalodon?

    • @dylanbourassa4507
      @dylanbourassa4507 10 лет назад +29

      Good luck with that.

    • @bentennyson2398
      @bentennyson2398 10 лет назад +2

      Dylan Bourassa Why.

    • @dylanbourassa4507
      @dylanbourassa4507 10 лет назад +57

      Ben Tennyson Because it will eat you that's why.

    • @bentennyson2398
      @bentennyson2398 10 лет назад +16

      Dylan Bourassa Lol youve been watching too much jaws.

    • @dylanbourassa4507
      @dylanbourassa4507 10 лет назад +16

      Ben Tennyson I don't watch that very often. Have you even seen how huge megladon is?

  • @fisherroastedpeanut
    @fisherroastedpeanut 8 лет назад +289

    Relicanth

  • @liammorton3064
    @liammorton3064 9 лет назад +16

    I was crying when i seen this!!! It is so beutiful!!! I almost fainted.

  • @Raflors
    @Raflors 3 года назад +3

    Omg. This is breathtaking moment. Nature is really beautiful.

  • @seaverino5346
    @seaverino5346 4 года назад +8

    “They’re like arms! .. sculpting the water” I’m dead ..... such cringe lol

  • @sirfredrin6302
    @sirfredrin6302 10 лет назад +55

    proving that we don't know everything about earth.

    • @Budisgud69
      @Budisgud69 10 лет назад +17

      Who said we did?

    • @dylanbourassa4507
      @dylanbourassa4507 10 лет назад +1

      True indeed my friend.

    • @DeathandGrim2
      @DeathandGrim2 10 лет назад +3

      nobody ever claimed that. If we did, then life would be pretty friggin boring.

    • @51ayer54
      @51ayer54 4 года назад

      Everybody knows that we know more about the moon than our own oceans and we have forrests that are completely unknown

    • @Wishuk112
      @Wishuk112 3 года назад

      @@51ayer54 that a reference?

  • @adamcummings20
    @adamcummings20 9 лет назад +53

    I want a pet Coelacanth

    • @prutata
      @prutata 9 лет назад

      I see what you did there

    • @adamcummings20
      @adamcummings20 8 лет назад

      Chimes Funker I don't get it either

    • @MissIshX
      @MissIshX 8 лет назад +6

      +Conveniently Placed Goat I want a pet Coelacanth two

    • @ClassALiving
      @ClassALiving 8 лет назад +7

      +Conveniently Placed Goat, So does Deadmau5.

    • @kyubacanth5898
      @kyubacanth5898 8 лет назад

      they are the most endangered species in the world and considered a living fossil. but thats up to you

  • @meganlandis5361
    @meganlandis5361 6 лет назад +13

    I'm amazed by how deep they are! does anyone know the depth they might be at??

    • @zs1dfr
      @zs1dfr 3 года назад +3

      Those photos were taken by divers at 360 feet. I watched the original video these scenes were borrowed from...

  • @ultra-rex7648
    @ultra-rex7648 Год назад +1

    Coelacanths are such amazing creatures. They have such a primordial design. Their tails are more reminiscing of prehistoric marine fish than the modern types.
    And though not dinosaurs, do look really saurian.

  • @djkham
    @djkham 5 лет назад +1

    Don’t know what’s more amazing: the prehistoric fish, or the guy who learned to talk through a rebreather...

    • @insanityle1374
      @insanityle1374 2 года назад

      Those lines were so cringe it was obvious they were just added in in post

  • @xsaver23
    @xsaver23 8 лет назад +43

    You can find these bad boys outside Sootopolis, just swim around

    • @the90thhunter92
      @the90thhunter92 8 лет назад +1

      Reb Gah forget it, Sootopolis is dead.
      Get yourself an island scan to get A Relicanth!.

    • @makoyangelourefugio8255
      @makoyangelourefugio8255 6 лет назад

      Reb

    • @TheUltimateNatural
      @TheUltimateNatural 4 года назад

      Amazing reference. It's a shame Relicanth isn't very viable because I love its design and inspiration.

  • @BahamutDarkFire
    @BahamutDarkFire 12 лет назад +7

    I've heard of it, but never really paid attention to how monumental of a discovery it was until recently. I also never realized how large or interesting they were. Absolutely awesome.
    But don't, for a second think we're done finding new (and possibly prehistoric) species in the ocean depths. We know more about the universe than we do the ocean deep.

  • @kylesmithisawesome
    @kylesmithisawesome 10 лет назад +13

    thats a magnificent fish....wow

  • @lmlmd2714
    @lmlmd2714 5 лет назад +1

    Over dramatic fake conversation aside, this is incredible. A real once in a lifetime experience for the crew - something they can tell their grandkids about. I'd give my back teeth to have been there.

  • @lartul
    @lartul 4 года назад

    THIS IS SO COOL!!!!! I LOVE THE COELACAHTH. THIS IS A SUCH AN EPIC LAZARUS TAXA!!!

  • @duomaxwel1567
    @duomaxwel1567 8 лет назад +21

    After they found it they should of taken pictures and then gotten the hell out of there. They were stressing it out with all the lights.

    • @NarcassiticGamer
      @NarcassiticGamer 8 лет назад +16

      dude, that fish species has been through a hell of a lot worse, the thing survived multiple mass extinctions and has been around for countless millenia. some lights aren't going to bother it to any point worth stressing over

  • @cristianbj9346
    @cristianbj9346 7 лет назад +5

    Hermoso este pez...
    el secreto mejor guardado dentro de la historia de la evolución de la vida...
    un fascinante y espectacular celacanto...

  • @muthulingamramiah5546
    @muthulingamramiah5546 4 года назад +3

    Oh my God, I get goosebumps every time I see this video...
    I've seen another video where they found multiple Coelacanths in a Fish Market somewhere in North Africa and Indonesia (I hope we don't fish them to extinction)...
    This makes you wonder, If Coelacanths survived multiple Mass Extinctions, what other prehistoric creatures survived???...
    I for one believe that we will find more of such prehistoric creatures coming back to life as we venture deeper and further into the ocean...
    I would love to see the Megalodon, Mosasaurus, Rhizodont (fresh Water fish) and Orthacanthus (fresh Water fish) making a come back too...

    • @joovsf
      @joovsf 3 года назад +1

      One of the species are the frilled shark (They are living fossils, like the coelacanth)

  • @Apollo_Blaze
    @Apollo_Blaze 7 месяцев назад +1

    It may be too much to hope for, but I hope that these beautiful creatures are left alone and are ale to come back up to more numbers and continue to be there. I feel so sorry for so many animals that are endangered.

  • @kwaiston2282
    @kwaiston2282 6 лет назад

    Untouched by evolution for millions of years. Just fantastic

  • @ClassALiving
    @ClassALiving 8 лет назад +47

    That sure is a pretty turtle.

    • @He-who-wakes
      @He-who-wakes 8 лет назад +2

      +Mill Shady clearly it's a cat

    • @He-who-wakes
      @He-who-wakes 8 лет назад +3

      Mill Shady listen here you little fuck, I know a cat when I see one.

    • @jamtartzz
      @jamtartzz 8 лет назад +2

      please, please. it's obviously a chicken

    • @josephmother110
      @josephmother110 8 лет назад +4

      Are you blind? that's a Alaskan Bull Worm

    • @He-who-wakes
      @He-who-wakes 8 лет назад +1

      Jedi Koala it's a sea dog

  • @beingatliberty
    @beingatliberty 10 лет назад +5

    Its strange to imagine it doesn't even know its almost identical ancestors go back 400 million years, its unaware of the time that has passed, since it evolved to this stable state.

  • @ingusmant
    @ingusmant 10 лет назад +18

    TL;DR: this fish is old, downright ancient, so much that it has more in common with reptiles and mammals (like us) than with modern fish.

  • @grungscreamvr8864
    @grungscreamvr8864 2 года назад +2

    This got me emotional and I don't know why. It's just seeing such a beautiful creature and knowing how rare it is just makes me sad.

  • @AnneAndersonFoxiepaws
    @AnneAndersonFoxiepaws 3 года назад +1

    What a majestic looking creature. You can see that it has muscular bony fins that probably, at some time turned into legs! Incredible!

  • @phfdxcddzcvtr100
    @phfdxcddzcvtr100 4 года назад +20

    Is anyone watching this after catching a ceolacanth in animal crossing new horizens?

  • @Manic_Mitch.official
    @Manic_Mitch.official 8 лет назад +37

    the after recorded talking is really annoying. like kinda cringe-worthy i had to ignore it to really appreciate the fish.

  • @memeson8414
    @memeson8414 10 лет назад +91

    Anyone else annoyed by the comments made by the divers?

    • @planetwalker
      @planetwalker 10 лет назад +38

      That was some idiot dubbing over the footage.
      The real narrator was right at the end of the video.

    • @finalizer0
      @finalizer0 10 лет назад +29

      I'd wager the comments aren't even the actual divers, but some studio recorded stuff added in later for a shitty attempt at dramatic effect.

    • @memeson8414
      @memeson8414 10 лет назад +30

      It was really lame and detracted from the actual video.

    • @planetwalker
      @planetwalker 10 лет назад +1

      Me Meson It may have been done to prevent the video getting pulled or the account banned over copyright nonsense.

    • @memeson8414
      @memeson8414 10 лет назад

      I think it's from the original clip from the actual source.

  • @adamschaafsma5839
    @adamschaafsma5839 3 года назад

    I love that the guy jumped in with his collared shirt and kahkis, like: "I don't care I'm seeing this thing with my own eyes! There is no way on earth I am going to miss this."

  • @isaacnewton7424
    @isaacnewton7424 3 года назад +1

    My eyes watered as if I was looking at the beauty of life.

  • @muhammadmiqdadkamaruzaman1167
    @muhammadmiqdadkamaruzaman1167 4 года назад +3

    Its amazing how ACNH make this fish accurately in the game... Compare this with the one in the game, it seriously looks the same

  • @gijsdalhuijsen
    @gijsdalhuijsen 9 лет назад +93

    ARK SURVIVORS, UNITE

  • @badbirdinc7546
    @badbirdinc7546 4 года назад +4

    BLAST FROM THE PAST!!!

  • @hoppop7047
    @hoppop7047 Год назад

    It’s so rare video,I appreciate NatioGio to serve this video on youtube!

  • @Monsterknecht
    @Monsterknecht 2 года назад

    What a beautiful and fascinating animal. thank you for these recordings.

  • @ant-1382
    @ant-1382 3 года назад +5

    Read a book about the discovery of Coelacanth, when I was a kid, 50 years ago, got to see a real one preserved in formaldehyde at the Vancouver aquarium when I was a teenager. Fascinating to see this live footage.

  • @MrProwler101477
    @MrProwler101477 11 лет назад +5

    Why do they keep describing it as ugly carcass form of anything is that but look at it in life its just majestic and beautiful!

  • @carlosramos31
    @carlosramos31 9 лет назад +15

    you fools its a relicanth. Catch it!

    • @Pugpono
      @Pugpono 9 лет назад +6

      One step closer to getting the Regis.

  • @cleversoar
    @cleversoar 2 года назад +1

    When I was a kid I only see this fish in books, and now I'm seeing it alive, the background music really gives me chills

  • @takashitobiishi
    @takashitobiishi 3 года назад

    What a graceful motion of this creature!

  • @unklscrufy
    @unklscrufy 10 лет назад +26

    The fake audio is a bit cheesy, but it's still an interesting video.

  • @micaellanoeric4122
    @micaellanoeric4122 Год назад +4

    I know them from ps1 game when i was a kid, at first i thought they were not a real fish and then i tried googling them and found out they're real but extinct, and then a few years ago a fisherman from my country caught 1 of them accidentally im happy but also sad he died because got caught.

  • @hunter5502000
    @hunter5502000 10 лет назад +11

    The reason we thought it was extinct is because we're so arrogant in thinking we know everything when more than 75 % of the ocean is unexplored.

    • @baconater4000
      @baconater4000 10 лет назад +4

      it was extinct to our knowledge

    • @Saucemeister07
      @Saucemeister07 5 лет назад

      No, because everything else died and oxygen levels were dropped killing anyone who didn't move to land, barely any survived,

    • @snapkungen
      @snapkungen 5 лет назад

      Make that 90%

    • @Neneset
      @Neneset 3 года назад

      It was thought to be extinct because they are found in the fossil record until 80 million years ago and then none in rocks younger than that. It looked like it had gone extinct because when an animal type disappears from the fossil record that is usually what it means. We don't just assume something is extinct because we don't see any of them and we don't arrogantly think we know everything. We follow the evidence and sometimes that evidence is misleading, but when we find that out we adjust our views.

    • @moto-fl3rd
      @moto-fl3rd 3 года назад

      @@Neneset that's why I'm annoyed with "trust the science"...until the "science" learns something new then it's "whoops! Ok, now we're right do what we say until we change our minds again"!

  • @jimlongo3317
    @jimlongo3317 3 месяца назад

    I remember the first time I read about this fish it Blew my Mind . I was fascinated with it and it still blows my mind !

  • @Vancev99x
    @Vancev99x 3 года назад +1

    Can we take a moment to appreciate that one of these guys looks like he came from the post office? Blue button up shirt khakis and a g shock watch?! I couldn't see his shoes but i bet they hard bottoms. My mans is the chaperone at the school dance tonight.

  • @snowvalleyrat
    @snowvalleyrat 10 лет назад +11

    Deadmau5 brought me here.

  • @Greenpoptartover9000
    @Greenpoptartover9000 4 года назад +4

    Just caught this thing yesterday in Animal Crossing New Horizons

  • @Burnwash
    @Burnwash 9 лет назад +4

    0.34 - that's what my wife is always telling me...

  • @firegator6853
    @firegator6853 10 месяцев назад

    Its so beautiful to see this creature and the way its locomoting in the water its like we are looking at a last preserved natural history moment from millions of years ago, i know animals keep evolving and even if coelancath is called "living fossil" its different from the extinct species but it still is magnificent to at least have this one, it gives a good idea how its extinct relatives might have been like when they were alive

  • @user-tj9ks1zv7k
    @user-tj9ks1zv7k 6 месяцев назад

    It's pretty amazing that this fish species has survived for hundreds of millions of years. There was an article that didn't make sense though stating it was thought they went extinct with the dinosaurs and then preceded to name different times it was found 1938, 1950s, 2000, 2010.