The only thing I don't understand about this fish, if it was extinct 65 million years ago, wouldn't it be found in every layer of rock and not just the cretatious rock layer.
It's perhaps the biggest mystery of these fish. I don't understand it either, but this might clarify some things aeon.co/ideas/the-missing-fossils-matter-as-much-as-the-ones-we-have-found and I'll be on the lookout for any other articles I find on the topic. I'll get back to you if I find a reason :)
@@NaturalWorldFacts I love that mystery. Don't get me wrong, I await the answer to this question, but until we receive it, the thought of these fish simply and suddenly appearing brings us back to the Great Mystery.
Spinosaurus: *Catches coelacanth and bites it* AAAGGHH! WHAT IS THIS!? TAR?! *Millions of years later* Humans: *Catches coelacanth, cooks it, and tries to eat it* AAAGGHH! WHAT IS THIS?! TAR?!
We don't have to worry about them getting fished to extinction. Their meat is super oily, tastes terrible, and can cause diarrhea, which is why fishermen do everything possible to avoid them. Being practically inedible may have also helped tremendously in its survival for millions of years.
@@NaturalWorldFacts Trawling nets are a definite threat, and because the fish is a health hazard to consumers, the fishermen do everything possible to throw them back.
Actually 75% of non avian dinosaurs got extinct, there were rest of the 25% like small mammals, ancestor of crocodiles and sharks, small dinosaurs, few sea creatures that lived under the ocean that evolved into animals that we see today including us.
Whoever is doing this voiceover has a beautiful timbre, not overpowering the matter at hand and not sedating so you switch off. Thank you for this video.
My favorite fish of all time ❤️ a diver who got to swim with one of these said a quote that is LITERALLY SPINE CHILLING “ when I swam with my dive team and finally was able to spot the coelacanth, I was looking at it dead in the eyes, and I was saying to myself, I wasn’t just starting into the eyes of any old fish, I was staring 67 million years into the past, I was seeing the last and only surviving creature of the cretaceous period alive and swimming in our modern day oceans today, the fact that it still looks EXACTLY the way it did when living breathing dinosaurs thundered across earths land is down right jaw dropping and in a way more haunting then anything I’ve ever seen with my human eyes, If this fish could talk, it would say that it literally swam in the oceans the exact same time dinosaurs physically walked on planet earth”
That’s incredibly inspiring, thank you for sharing that, I had no idea about that quote until now. It’s beautiful and so mysterious, just like the fish itself.
Natural World Facts yes ❤️ your very welcome ☺️, and it is true to the highest point, it’s exactly comparable if you were to walk outside your house and see a tyrannosaurs rex just standing there eating the grass on your lawn, but you can actually just do that with this fish and swim with it, and from what I’ve red, is that how these fish were able to avoid all the mass extinctions and ice ages and permafrost is they would live in the deepest parts of the caves in the deepest parts of the ocean for millions I’d years and then once all that ended it finally swam back up In Today’s modern times still physically unchanged and still looking the exact same as it did when it swam with dinosaurs 67 million years ago
That’s brilliant! The fish that hibernates through generations by delving to the depths away from change and environmental extremities. It’s absolutely brilliant. What else is still out there lurking in wait of a future we can’t imagine!
some "extinct" species also found out to be alive and well, despite having low numbers in some of the remote part of the world. I'd hope it stays that way, human's greed knows no bound.
Many species fossilize poorly, like squids. Squids are around 40% ammonia by mass for boyancy and as a result when they die they don't become acidic enough to properly fossilize. Not to mention that very specific geology is needed and it isn't unreasonable for something to have a very patchy fossil record. A good analogy is that we are trying to read Shakespeare with nothing but the ruins of a library that burned down 10years ago. Most of the information is permanently lost and the rest is buried and scattered. Also, many species living in remote areas are even more likely to go undocumented by science, ceolecanths live in lavatubes over 100m or 330ft below the ocean near Madegascar and Indonesia (Sumatra).
Coelacanth: Let me tell you a story Humans: tell us about the T. rex, the most fearsome of all the dinosaurs Coelo: THE MOST FEARSOME OF ALL DINOSAURS! LOL. Rexy was a giant chicken
@@NaturalWorldFacts well, we could perhaps try and ressurect dinosaurs if we can find some DNA in their skeletal structures. It's rare as all hell, but it could work if we play our cards right with gene splicing. And that...could lead to human experimentation. WILLING, I MUST ADD. People signing up for injection to their dna makeup, to see the outcome. Might slowly make a transformation. Just gotta isolate different parts
I got to admit, changing and experimenting with genes opens up a whole world of fascinating potential! The ability to control life and its processes, to manufacture medicines without exploiting resources, to bring back creatures we destroyed, and eliminate diseases and cancers in humanity. There are many dangers of course, but the possibilities are endless!
@@NaturalWorldFacts as well, it will manage to give us the ability of permanent transmorphing. Not necessarily at will, but by using gene modification and surgery. So, one could have themselves using a combination of dna and surgical extreme body modification to the skeletal structure, become something other than human, while retaining a human stance.
WHOA! I think this is the first time I've seen a video of the Coelacanths out in the wild. I always thought they looked scary seeing their illustration. but the one in the video almost looks like it's smiling xD This is an awesome video, thank you for bringing this to light!
Personally I’m waiting for them to discover Atlantis and mermaids. They’re bound to rise above and war with us due to all the plastic we’ve been dumping in the ocean.
Coelacanths, dragon flies, ferns and cycads (sago palms) existed before dinosaurs appeared; and yet, these species still exist today. It is truly amazing and makes one think that not much has changed on the Earth over the last two or three hundred million years (relatively speaking, of course).
I know this video is outdated, but saying they "have remained unchanged for millions of years" is incorrect. The Indonesian variants are a lot more leaner than the African variants, clearly showing them adapting to their surroundings.
You’re absolutely correct, they’ve certainly undergone some changes. I was a little less informed when I made this, but I had no idea my channel would grow so much and so many would see it! I’m much more proud of the more recent content I’ve put out there :)
I'm from Indonesia and there have been several news over the years reporting on this fish. Some were caught dead on a fisherman's net while others were let go after they took picture of the creature 😊.
Also, it's not like modern coelacanths aren't pretty different from some of the ones that are found on the fossil record, even in the same family as the modern coelacanths, like Foreyia and other weirdos.
I think this is actually my first video of one. Im 47 but I was in high school when we learned that they still exist. Nature is definitely aww inspiring, memorizing and terrifying at the same time.
I first learned about the “fossil fish” two years ago in a week long stem program. I am so glad you uploaded this video for others to hear about the magnificent coelacanth!
@@NaturalWorldFacts It’s called Camp Invention. It’s a week long summer camp that schools around the country (USA) host. Grades 1-5 are divided up into four groups which rotate around the school. You have to come back each day for classes, you don’t sleep at the school. Each classroom has a different instructor who teaches about a different subject or topic. For example: Classroom one teaches about famous inventors, while classroom two is learning about the functions of robots and how they help society. If you have already graduated from the fifth grade, you can volunteer as a helper, which I was. I hope this clears some things up! :)
That sounds like a genuinely fun, fascinating and educational summer camp! I wish I’d had the chance to take part in something like that, I think that’s education at its best! Over here the focus is always just exams, exams, exams. It’s exhausting, there’s nothing to get students really motivated to learn, which sucks! I’ll be off to uni next year finally, which I’m excited about. The chance to focus my time on a subject that truly means something to me - marine biology :)
@@NaturalWorldFacts That’s amazing and I’m really happy for you! I’ll keep you in mind and hope that you can pursue your marine biology dreams! It is really interesting how different perspectives on learning can completely alter the abilities of a once young and brilliant minded person, to someone who wouldn’t even think of going to college. Again, good luck, and I hope you go far!
@CallistoTheMoon Thank you so much! That’s really sweet of you. I hope you succeed in where you wish to end up too! What are your hopes for the future? :)
Natural World Facts it is always a joy to get that notification when I get home from work and see a good quality video! Can’t wait to see what’s next! 🤙
I have to say, your narration reminds me of the eerie utube channels there used to be years ago, before utube got bought out by google. Excellent channel btw, you do great works
That’s great to hear!! I adore AC for how it brings to light some really cool deep sea creatures. It’s almost given these fish a cult following, it’s incredible :)
I saw a video on these years ago and couldnt remember the name, Thank you for this!! The video I saw was of the divers who took the video. It was so deep they could only film for 15 min at a time
Dear Natural World Facts. I like your videos a lot! But I would love if you could turn down the reverb on your voice. It makes me feel like watching an asmr video. keep it up!
We must! We can’t lose them again. Also, I’m currently trawling through my audio files to find the synth song from the other vid - I had stupidly not organised it properly - but I’ll drop you a comment when I find it!! :)
It’s surprising... We know more about outer space and the universe around us than what lurks in the waters of our oceans. Beings who have survived since ancient times exist right in our modern day waters, and it wouldn’t surprise me if ancient artifacts that were considered, “Wielded by the gods themselves” would be found down buried beneath the crushing depths of the sub aquatic abyss... There is so much of our world that we don’t understand, and we humans, being as curious as we are, are searching for any sort of information from our ancestors who had lived thousands, millions, or billions of years ago. While it’s to be determined whether or not some of our questions are better left without answers, I’d argue it’s incredibly important for us to learn as much about our home’s as we can. Nature can teach us copious amounts of how to build things better as well as create things we once thought were impossible to make, so long as we respect nature’s boundaries, as it has shown countless times... Nature giveth, nature taketh. And with more and more advanced technologies coming out, I’d say it’s imperative that we learn as much history as we can in our lives, things that are good, and things that are bad. We need to learn both sides. Knowing that as an old time saying goes, “You need to know your history or be forever doomed to repeat it.”
Chad fish: I have survived a giant meteor that killed all dinosaurs except me and I have not changed at all and my species survived for 65 million years. noob dinos:nOOoOOoO help big no no rock scawy me no want to die plsssssssssss
All animals evolve. So the Coelacanth today is not the same Coelacanth that all mammals evolved from. It is only a close relative for the fact that it shares the same properties of the pre historic Coelacanth. But it is still neat to study a fish that share some of the same properties of most land animals.
if you do more short videos like this and try your best to condense them to a minute long you could consider making shorts. shorts and reels are becoming super popular.
Great footage; commentary is inaccurate however as lobe-finned fish such as this were believed to have become extinct in the Devonian, not the Cretaceous. Even more impressive, as this makes them a relic of c360 million years ago.
what confuses me also, the Coelacanth seems to be in the transition stage of evolution already from aquatic to land dwelling... How has it managed to not evolve any further when the world around it has?
It had no need to! The conditions of the deep sea where it migrated to following the Devonian extinction were so stable that there has been no major selection pressure driving them to change. Of course, some did change- millions of years ago, a population of coelacanths would have diverged to give rise to amphibians and eventually tetrapods, but others (those that were driven deeper) did not change. You’re right, it’s peculiar indeed that they endure when all other lobe-finned fish in the oceans evolved or died out, but it’s all down to circumstance. And in the case of the Coelacanth, it was able to survive. That said, there are only 500 left in the wild, so they’re not exactly thriving!
@@NaturalWorldFacts lol....of course some changed...I'm just another scientist speculating. Darwin smacking you in the face...you dope I was wrong....stop quoting me.
@@NaturalWorldFacts Of course it had a "need to evolve". The proof it needed to evolve is the fact that there are very few of them left in the oceans. Duh.
Ceolocanths aren’t dinosaurs though. Scaly + ancient ≠ dinosaur. That includes pterodactyls, ichthyosaurs, dimetrodon, plesiosaurs, crocodiles. and so many others in the grouping of animals that aren’t actually dinosaurs.
The story of this fish honestly makes me sad, after millions of years and somehow surviving through the mass extinction, they will just die out because of changes in the environment that are most likely caused by us.
@@RemMcKoffl3r it’s not just the scientist, fishermen/hunters cause a lot of endangered species to go extinct. Yes, there are many fame hungry scientist out there who don’t care about the animals they “try and save” but there are some that actually care.
You’re absolutely right, I had no idea till you told me! Is it a new species/subspecies they found or just an individual from the already rediscovered populations?
@@NaturalWorldFacts I guess it's an individual from the already discovered specie, you can read the news on this website. www.timesnownews.com/amp/the-buzz/article/coelacanths-extinct-fossil-fish-thought-to-have-lived-420-million-years-ago-found-alive-in-madagascar/757603?
Thanks so much for sending that through! This should be front-page stuff right here, but unfortunately media doesn’t care about the deep sea. I certainly do, so it’s much appreciated 😉
The man who discovered the coelacanth was the grandfather of wildlife biologist forrest galante, the host of national geographics extinct or alive, so in a way this fish is the reason for that programme to exist. The fish was also discovered on a fishmarket in africa somewhere. All this was in forrest galante's book "still alive" which is a great read about finding seemingly extinct species and wildlife conservation
What a cool fish, coming from a fellow sarcopterygian! Sarcopterygian fish (lungfish and coelacanths) are one of the most interesting fish in my opinion!
i was already really interested in them before i started playing animal crossing. i didn't know they were featured in the game. the first time i caught one i was so happy! :D
My dream is to see one of these amazing and unique fishes in person, they are one of my favourite animals and by far my favourite fish. I hope that I can see one in my lifetime and that their species outlives me. I hope that the various governments can develop sustainable infrastructure in order to help protect this magnificent animal.
Wait, they are 2 meters long?? I always thought (by myself) that these living fossil fishes were, like, half a meter tops. Huh. Used to be so into nature, these bitesized videos let me reconnect a bit with that part of myself.
The only thing I don't understand about this fish, if it was extinct 65 million years ago, wouldn't it be found in every layer of rock and not just the cretatious rock layer.
It's perhaps the biggest mystery of these fish. I don't understand it either, but this might clarify some things aeon.co/ideas/the-missing-fossils-matter-as-much-as-the-ones-we-have-found and I'll be on the lookout for any other articles I find on the topic. I'll get back to you if I find a reason :)
@@NaturalWorldFacts I love that mystery. Don't get me wrong, I await the answer to this question, but until we receive it, the thought of these fish simply and suddenly appearing brings us back to the Great Mystery.
Couldn’t agree more! It’s so humbling to know there’s a true great mystery in the natural world like that :)
@We All Laugh Down Here All those creatures we will never know. 😟
@@NaturalWorldFacts Fascinating article.
Animals: constantly evolving
Coelacanths: "If it ain't broke, don't fix it"
You’ve essentially summarised the entire evolutionary history of coelacanths in one comment 😂😂 love it.
Hell yeah, Coelacanths FTW! 🤘🏻
It's been saving up evolution points for a secret achievement
@@cloverthrill6708 He hasn't reached lvl. 50 yet lmao
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Spinosaurus: *Catches coelacanth and bites it* AAAGGHH! WHAT IS THIS!? TAR?!
*Millions of years later*
Humans: *Catches coelacanth, cooks it, and tries to eat it* AAAGGHH! WHAT IS THIS?! TAR?!
😂😂 i love the image here!! Dining on the same food as Spinosauruses and having the same reaction. Then again they never had salt-
LOL
awwww don't eat it 😅 i just want to see it
Road Roller: Wryy!!
@Marvin Yalung so sad but true.. we are going to become robot or androids..
We don't have to worry about them getting fished to extinction. Their meat is super oily, tastes terrible, and can cause diarrhea, which is why fishermen do everything possible to avoid them.
Being practically inedible may have also helped tremendously in its survival for millions of years.
Yeah, this is true. Do you know at all if theyre ever affected by trawling nets and such? I’m not too sure on what threatens them
@@NaturalWorldFacts
Trawling nets are a definite threat, and because the fish is a health hazard to consumers, the fishermen do everything possible to throw them back.
Sometimes scientists will catch them, but it’s for research purposes
I don't think you've heard of this thing called "America"
Yeah, we put them in Big Mac patties
Yeah that’s a good point!!
Scientist: You are critically Endangered!
Coelacanth: Dude, I was extinct for 80 million years. I'm good.
😂😂😂
atleast they are avoided cause they can cause doodoo explosion
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80mil make that 66mil years
Other fish : how the fuck did your species survived, there was a mass extinction.
Coelacanth : There was? Ok cool.
Stay off the internet.
@@Rob.P974 Get a life
Actually 75% of non avian dinosaurs got extinct, there were rest of the 25% like small mammals, ancestor of crocodiles and sharks, small dinosaurs, few sea creatures that lived under the ocean that evolved into animals that we see today including us.
Coelocanth is one of the most interesting creatures and the way they thought they where extinct is very fascinating
They really are fascinating, im glad you enjoyed :)
Whoever is doing this voiceover has a beautiful timbre, not overpowering the matter at hand and not sedating so you switch off. Thank you for this video.
Thank you so much for writing such a kind comment. You’ve made my day ☺️
That's Leo. Fabulous voice!
Chengjiang Fossil Site...
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100% agreed. A most professional job, well done.
No thanks. We're headed over to the Biden Fossil Site.@@cosmoray9750
Relicanth in real life!
Except you cant stuff it in a plastic ball lol
Relicanth was in my winning team in a tournament hosted in 2009. Rock Head, Rock Polish, Head Smash, Aqua Tail and Earthquake, if I remember well.
@@eldermartins3220 other moves - Surf, Whirlpool, Waterfall, Dive, Rock Slide, Rock Tomb, Earthquake and etc
Was literally thinking the same thing
@@isaacpaz9287 these are everyone's favourite old moves
My favorite fish of all time ❤️ a diver who got to swim with one of these said a quote that is LITERALLY SPINE CHILLING
“ when I swam with my dive team and finally was able to spot the coelacanth, I was looking at it dead in the eyes, and I was saying to myself, I wasn’t just starting into the eyes of any old fish, I was staring 67 million years into the past, I was seeing the last and only surviving creature of the cretaceous period alive and swimming in our modern day oceans today, the fact that it still looks EXACTLY the way it did when living breathing dinosaurs thundered across earths land is down right jaw dropping and in a way more haunting then anything I’ve ever seen with my human eyes, If this fish could talk, it would say that it literally swam in the oceans the exact same time dinosaurs physically walked on planet earth”
That’s incredibly inspiring, thank you for sharing that, I had no idea about that quote until now. It’s beautiful and so mysterious, just like the fish itself.
Natural World Facts yes ❤️ your very welcome ☺️, and it is true to the highest point, it’s exactly comparable if you were to walk outside your house and see a tyrannosaurs rex just standing there eating the grass on your lawn, but you can actually just do that with this fish and swim with it, and from what I’ve red, is that how these fish were able to avoid all the mass extinctions and ice ages and permafrost is they would live in the deepest parts of the caves in the deepest parts of the ocean for millions I’d years and then once all that ended it finally swam back up In Today’s modern times still physically unchanged and still looking the exact same as it did when it swam with dinosaurs 67 million years ago
That’s brilliant! The fish that hibernates through generations by delving to the depths away from change and environmental extremities. It’s absolutely brilliant. What else is still out there lurking in wait of a future we can’t imagine!
Natural World Facts what really makes me mad is the fact that the megladon had to go extinct lol now if only those were around today
That would be brilliant! A shark that huge, lurking in the depths. A true nightmare of the seas, right up my alley.
some "extinct" species also found out to be alive and well, despite having low numbers in some of the remote part of the world. I'd hope it stays that way, human's greed knows no bound.
they’re called lazarus species!
*capitalist greed
Many species fossilize poorly, like squids.
Squids are around 40% ammonia by mass for boyancy and as a result when they die they don't become acidic enough to properly fossilize.
Not to mention that very specific geology is needed and it isn't unreasonable for something to have a very patchy fossil record.
A good analogy is that we are trying to read Shakespeare with nothing but the ruins of a library that burned down 10years ago. Most of the information is permanently lost and the rest is buried and scattered.
Also, many species living in remote areas are even more likely to go undocumented by science, ceolecanths live in lavatubes over 100m or 330ft below the ocean near Madegascar and Indonesia (Sumatra).
@@Celebi50 Blah Blah Blah rich people are evil, give me free stuff
Human bad, nature good. Seriously is that all you can think
Ark players when they are too afraid to get meat in the forest
They don't taste good in real life tho
@Shaheen Mohammad Shah its better than raptors and their alphas
@@alvianekka80 Yeah, I heard they’re really oily. Kinda disappointed that they don’t drop oil after that fact.
@@alvianekka80 Maybe for a good reason. We don't want them to be extinct again just because humans found out they existed.
Coelacanth: Let me tell you a story
Humans: tell us about the T. rex, the most fearsome of all the dinosaurs
Coelo: THE MOST FEARSOME OF ALL DINOSAURS! LOL. Rexy was a giant chicken
Underated comment 😂😂😂😂😂
Put ceola in the animus and let us see the dinos
@@anapaola7241 Nice assassin's Creed reference
@@anapaola7241 so u experience being a fish ?
Cringe
Harmlessly extract some DNA so that we can hopefully revive it if it ever does go extinct. I really don’t want this veteran to die.
It’s my hope that this fish outlives humanity, that truly would be an impressive feat!
@@NaturalWorldFacts well, we could perhaps try and ressurect dinosaurs if we can find some DNA in their skeletal structures. It's rare as all hell, but it could work if we play our cards right with gene splicing. And that...could lead to human experimentation. WILLING, I MUST ADD. People signing up for injection to their dna makeup, to see the outcome. Might slowly make a transformation. Just gotta isolate different parts
I got to admit, changing and experimenting with genes opens up a whole world of fascinating potential! The ability to control life and its processes, to manufacture medicines without exploiting resources, to bring back creatures we destroyed, and eliminate diseases and cancers in humanity. There are many dangers of course, but the possibilities are endless!
@@NaturalWorldFacts as well, it will manage to give us the ability of permanent transmorphing. Not necessarily at will, but by using gene modification and surgery. So, one could have themselves using a combination of dna and surgical extreme body modification to the skeletal structure, become something other than human, while retaining a human stance.
@Magnus I don’t know much about transmorphing, but it sounds fascinating.
WHOA! I think this is the first time I've seen a video of the Coelacanths out in the wild. I always thought they looked scary seeing their illustration. but the one in the video almost looks like it's smiling xD This is an awesome video, thank you for bringing this to light!
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Thanks Animal Crossing, for teaching me that these exist🖖
This fish survived the extinction, imagine other undiscovered species, and humans only explored 5% of the oceans.
Absolutely! I’m sure there’s so much more out there waiting to be discovered
Personally I’m waiting for them to discover Atlantis and mermaids. They’re bound to rise above and war with us due to all the plastic we’ve been dumping in the ocean.
@@deleqtronica8733 shut up
Lol with common sense it's safe to assume there's definitely undiscovered weird stuff
@@Coinz8 lol
Coelacanths, dragon flies, ferns and cycads (sago palms) existed before dinosaurs appeared; and yet, these species still exist today. It is truly amazing and makes one think that not much has changed on the Earth over the last two or three hundred million years (relatively speaking, of course).
I would love to see a living wild coelacanth. I've only ever seen fossils in museums and aquariums.
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I caught one in AC new horizons ! Such a majestic creature.
They really are beautiful, it’s no wonder they’ve been used in the AC games. Truly mysterious creatures
I know this video is outdated, but saying they "have remained unchanged for millions of years" is incorrect. The Indonesian variants are a lot more leaner than the African variants, clearly showing them adapting to their surroundings.
You’re absolutely correct, they’ve certainly undergone some changes. I was a little less informed when I made this, but I had no idea my channel would grow so much and so many would see it! I’m much more proud of the more recent content I’ve put out there :)
I'm from Indonesia and there have been several news over the years reporting on this fish. Some were caught dead on a fisherman's net while others were let go after they took picture of the creature 😊.
Also, living fossils are more accurately described as having experienced morphological stasis (of varying degrees), but on the dna level, evolved
Also, it's not like modern coelacanths aren't pretty different from some of the ones that are found on the fossil record, even in the same family as the modern coelacanths, like Foreyia and other weirdos.
And of course there's the massive increase in size...from 6 inches long to six feet.
"Without careful management of human activities, this species could be lost forever" [guy touches fish with bare germy hand]
I think this is actually my first video of one. Im 47 but I was in high school when we learned that they still exist. Nature is definitely aww inspiring, memorizing and terrifying at the same time.
I completely agree, first learning about this fish was an unforgettable experience for me!
I distinctly remember reading about the coelocanth as an instinct species in an old encyclopedia back in the 80s.
Fascinating stuff to read, hope you enjoyed the video :)
I love your videos and this one, though a bit short, was yet another treat. Please consider doing one on the nautilus!
I first learned about the “fossil fish” two years ago in a week long stem program. I am so glad you uploaded this video for others to hear about the magnificent coelacanth!
No worries at all, I’m so glad you found it helpful. What was the stem program like? It sounds truly fascinating!
@@NaturalWorldFacts It’s called Camp Invention. It’s a week long summer camp that schools around the country (USA) host. Grades 1-5 are divided up into four groups which rotate around the school. You have to come back each day for classes, you don’t sleep at the school. Each classroom has a different instructor who teaches about a different subject or topic. For example: Classroom one teaches about famous inventors, while classroom two is learning about the functions of robots and how they help society. If you have already graduated from the fifth grade, you can volunteer as a helper, which I was. I hope this clears some things up! :)
That sounds like a genuinely fun, fascinating and educational summer camp! I wish I’d had the chance to take part in something like that, I think that’s education at its best!
Over here the focus is always just exams, exams, exams. It’s exhausting, there’s nothing to get students really motivated to learn, which sucks! I’ll be off to uni next year finally, which I’m excited about. The chance to focus my time on a subject that truly means something to me - marine biology :)
@@NaturalWorldFacts That’s amazing and I’m really happy for you! I’ll keep you in mind and hope that you can pursue your marine biology dreams! It is really interesting how different perspectives on learning can completely alter the abilities of a once young and brilliant minded person, to someone who wouldn’t even think of going to college. Again, good luck, and I hope you go far!
@CallistoTheMoon Thank you so much! That’s really sweet of you. I hope you succeed in where you wish to end up too! What are your hopes for the future? :)
"BLAST FROM THE PAST" I caught a coelacanth, think positive be a coelaCAN
"This old fishy for you Blathers"
This channel is absolutely amazing. Every single video is a hit.
Aw thank you!!!! Thats so kind of you
I just love how they move! Thanks for highlighting another unusual but amazing species 💚 🥰
Thanks for the kind words as always 💛 they’re such beautiful creatures, so mysterious and alien ☺️
Natural World Facts it is always a joy to get that notification when I get home from work and see a good quality video! Can’t wait to see what’s next! 🤙
@@ShelbyOnSafari Aww thank you, the same goes for you!
this is crazy ty for posting this
So this is the sea animal that is the inspiration for Relicanth! So cool!
It’s so awesome how much the deep sea has influenced popular culture :)
There's Digimon inspired by this fish too called Coelamon
I have to say, your narration reminds me of the eerie utube channels there used to be years ago, before utube got bought out by google. Excellent channel btw, you do great works
When you realise that the Coelacanth was about as old to the first Dinosaurs as the first Dynosaurs are to us.
This video was shown in my Vertebrate Zoology class today and I got so excited to see that channel intro! Great work!
Oh nice!! Where are you studying?
@@NaturalWorldFacts At Juniata College in Pennsylvania.
They're so cute!!! They have this lil axolotxl-esque smile on their gimungo faces 🖤🖤🖤
great video Leo, really interesting
Thank you :)
when you do the no evolution challenge in spore
Classic! 😂
Thank you for your lovely documentaries!
Wow I can’t believe these things actually exist, like the nautilus. Majestic creatures.
They’re phenomenal, but utterly otherworldly.
Great video. I subscribed
Thanks man :)
The fact that yet again, 65 million years ago, specimens alive and living are discovered, I'm curious to what else?
There’s so much out there yet to be found! It’s only a matter of time, but it will be exciting no matter what.
Prob not much. 65 million years ago the ocean was teeming with life everywhere. Now they are dead zones. Not enough food.
You are doing a great job
I am trying to catch one on ACWildWorld right now. I looked up how to get one and stumbled on this video. Can say This was super intresting!
That’s great to hear!! I adore AC for how it brings to light some really cool deep sea creatures. It’s almost given these fish a cult following, it’s incredible :)
I got one but not on wild world
I saw a video on these years ago and couldnt remember the name, Thank you for this!!
The video I saw was of the divers who took the video. It was so deep they could only film for 15 min at a time
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Surviving humans is harder than asteroids that killed the dinosaurs.
Except us humans dislike them. They're nasty and inedible, so fishermen tend to avoid them
Human bad! Lol, you do know we aren’t the reason for its endangerment...
@@hairglowingkyle4572 that's good for them since i don't want the last dinosaur fish to go extinct
Dear Natural World Facts. I like your videos a lot! But I would love if you could turn down the reverb on your voice. It makes me feel like watching an asmr video.
keep it up!
We must protect these big bois at all cost!
We must! We can’t lose them again.
Also, I’m currently trawling through my audio files to find the synth song from the other vid - I had stupidly not organised it properly - but I’ll drop you a comment when I find it!! :)
It’s surprising... We know more about outer space and the universe around us than what lurks in the waters of our oceans.
Beings who have survived since ancient times exist right in our modern day waters, and it wouldn’t surprise me if ancient artifacts that were considered, “Wielded by the gods themselves” would be found down buried beneath the crushing depths of the sub aquatic abyss...
There is so much of our world that we don’t understand, and we humans, being as curious as we are, are searching for any sort of information from our ancestors who had lived thousands, millions, or billions of years ago.
While it’s to be determined whether or not some of our questions are better left without answers, I’d argue it’s incredibly important for us to learn as much about our home’s as we can. Nature can teach us copious amounts of how to build things better as well as create things we once thought were impossible to make, so long as we respect nature’s boundaries, as it has shown countless times... Nature giveth, nature taketh.
And with more and more advanced technologies coming out, I’d say it’s imperative that we learn as much history as we can in our lives, things that are good, and things that are bad.
We need to learn both sides. Knowing that as an old time saying goes, “You need to know your history or be forever doomed to repeat it.”
Dinos:nOoOoOOOOo yOu cAnT sUrvIvE tHe mEtEoR
The fish:haha op skills go brrrr
Chad fish: I have survived a giant meteor that killed all dinosaurs except me and I have not changed at all and my species survived for 65 million years.
noob dinos:nOOoOOoO help big no no rock scawy me no want to die plsssssssssss
@@xupin9783 also chad fish:also im 320 M years
@@kaloz429mobile9 lol
@@kaloz429mobile9 more than that, probably like 420 million
This fish has fascinated me for years.
I love how this fish is the perfect case study in "scientists actually have no idea what they're talking about sometimes".
Huh? How does that work lol? We have an understanding of Coelacanths. Hell, even I can explain it.
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All animals evolve. So the Coelacanth today is not the same Coelacanth that all mammals evolved from. It is only a close relative for the fact that it shares the same properties of the pre historic Coelacanth. But it is still neat to study a fish that share some of the same properties of most land animals.
I broke down when the first video emerged... as a fossil enthusiast this really meant everything to me
Fisherman and Third World Countries:
“Can you eat it?”
Seriously though, amazing video and such an awesome fish. I love your channel.
Fortunately their meat is disgusting and causes diarrhoea
@@Hesselaer ... wait how do they know that
if you do more short videos like this and try your best to condense them to a minute long you could consider making shorts. shorts and reels are becoming super popular.
I caught a Coelocanth!
I can't believe it's actually realacanth!
Bro you have read a lot of comments and as a small yter i respect that about you!
Cheers :D
Great footage; commentary is inaccurate however as lobe-finned fish such as this were believed to have become extinct in the Devonian, not the Cretaceous. Even more impressive, as this makes them a relic of c360 million years ago.
Thanks for the correction! That really is impressive :)
Thank you so much for this video 🙏🏻
Glad you enjoyed :)
next thing we discover is a 30 foot evolved spinosaur with bird wings and fire breathe
Don't forget it can spit acid
And lay webs
This is soo cool to see something that lived longer than us people
It so weired that somehow this creature managed to make into the human era of Earth’s history...
It's so mysterious and beautiful!
It's one of the treasures of the earth and one of the mysteries.
Well now I can’t scroll by and NOT learn about this, seriously?? This is definitely a test in life
Imagine which thought to be extinct animals are still alive somewhere. This world is so interesting and mysterious. So beautiful.
That fish is one of the requirements to get the three reggies.
Latimeria....Coelocanth-Living fossils 🐟🐟Amazed adaptation
what confuses me also, the Coelacanth seems to be in the transition stage of evolution already from aquatic to land dwelling... How has it managed to not evolve any further when the world around it has?
It had no need to! The conditions of the deep sea where it migrated to following the Devonian extinction were so stable that there has been no major selection pressure driving them to change. Of course, some did change- millions of years ago, a population of coelacanths would have diverged to give rise to amphibians and eventually tetrapods, but others (those that were driven deeper) did not change. You’re right, it’s peculiar indeed that they endure when all other lobe-finned fish in the oceans evolved or died out, but it’s all down to circumstance. And in the case of the Coelacanth, it was able to survive. That said, there are only 500 left in the wild, so they’re not exactly thriving!
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@@NaturalWorldFacts lol....of course some changed...I'm just another scientist speculating. Darwin smacking you in the face...you dope I was wrong....stop quoting me.
@@NaturalWorldFacts Of course it had a "need to evolve". The proof it needed to evolve is the fact that there are very few of them left in the oceans. Duh.
No matter how you put it. It's beautiful to just see
Love you
☺️
Just caught this on animal crossing yesterday and i got recommended this just now, couldn’t resist myself from clicking this^^
This just goes to show.....Alot of dinosaurs and other strange creatures thought to be extinct are still Alive! Now lets Keep it that way!🙏
Well said!
Ceolocanths aren’t dinosaurs though. Scaly + ancient ≠ dinosaur. That includes pterodactyls, ichthyosaurs, dimetrodon, plesiosaurs, crocodiles. and so many others in the grouping of animals that aren’t actually dinosaurs.
And you’re not wrong about the dinosaurs still being around. Birds are technically classed as dinosaurs
Man's science..lol like man's laws of physics..lol not our planet...we have never Ben alone ....
That’s why they said ‘and other strange creatures’ I think
i caught one In ACNH. Very unexpected. They are very beautiful fish.
They really are beautiful. A living, breathing remnant of a bygone age :)
I wish we could ask her to describe what Megalodon looked like.
Ask who?
The fish
Ah! Thatd be awesome
The fish be like: oh long long time ago my grandfather told me there's a big shark it was huge my grandfather said
If only megs were still alive, that’d be awesome
Nice video
The story of this fish honestly makes me sad, after millions of years and somehow surviving through the mass extinction, they will just die out because of changes in the environment that are most likely caused by us.
Awwww boohoo im crying now...
And that is why kids, that is why you shouldn't ever be a scientist, they disturb endangered species
@@RemMcKoffl3r it’s not just the scientist, fishermen/hunters cause a lot of endangered species to go extinct. Yes, there are many fame hungry scientist out there who don’t care about the animals they “try and save” but there are some that actually care.
What a amazing footage, Im quite interested in the middle footage @1:44, what is the source of that group of coelacanths?
Found again in Indian Ocean off the coast of Madagascar today. 17/05/2021
You’re absolutely right, I had no idea till you told me! Is it a new species/subspecies they found or just an individual from the already rediscovered populations?
@@NaturalWorldFacts I guess it's an individual from the already discovered specie, you can read the news on this website.
www.timesnownews.com/amp/the-buzz/article/coelacanths-extinct-fossil-fish-thought-to-have-lived-420-million-years-ago-found-alive-in-madagascar/757603?
Thanks so much for sending that through! This should be front-page stuff right here, but unfortunately media doesn’t care about the deep sea. I certainly do, so it’s much appreciated 😉
The man who discovered the coelacanth was the grandfather of wildlife biologist forrest galante, the host of national geographics extinct or alive, so in a way this fish is the reason for that programme to exist. The fish was also discovered on a fishmarket in africa somewhere. All this was in forrest galante's book "still alive" which is a great read about finding seemingly extinct species and wildlife conservation
Can't wait till we find an adult dunkleosteus next week
Fuck nah we can wait
Tbh its incredible that the species is still alive
It really is! They’re hanging on by a thin thread but they are truly unique.
We must protect them, they are millions of years older than our human species
They deserve to be left alone. .
Such a beautiful prehistoric fish
This fish is incredible!
It's proof of evolution and they can live for centuries.
Absolutely!!
you mean...proof evolution is BS?
i remember reading about coelacanth and saying ''ugh my favorite fish from ark it is growing on me i wish this guy was still alive''
You can add a swimming Coelacanth on your deskop via Microsoft store. Just search for: DesktopCoelacanth for Windows10
Dude I’m waay ahead of you 😉
What a cool fish, coming from a fellow sarcopterygian! Sarcopterygian fish (lungfish and coelacanths) are one of the most interesting fish in my opinion!
This dude needs to get into voice acting lol I’m soothed 🤤
Thanks man 😁
Excellent! The last thing I needed to unlock some fellows named Reggie
I have seen this is in Ark.
They are good source of meat for Dinos.
Good job coelecisbdndbsbsbsbsbs
If I didn't play ark I wouldn't know what this dino is
Yeah killed a lot of them in ark to
it was worth it for that spino :)
Interesting stuff. I wonder, have they found any fossil record of the fish with legs that walked out of the ocean ?
ucmp.berkeley.edu/vertebrates/tetrapods/amphibfr.html
They sure have!
@@NaturalWorldFacts so were they fish that walk on land and breath air or mammals that breathed in water?
Hope the divers can refrain from touching them... We could be carrying pathogens.
Carrying pathogens? The fish them self arent millions of years old its the species of fish that is.
Great fish
*video about coelecanths*
me, an animal crossing fan: 👀👀
I can relate 😉
i was already really interested in them before i started playing animal crossing. i didn't know they were featured in the game. the first time i caught one i was so happy! :D
It was the same for me... such a lovely surprise when I caught my first one, for a long time I’d thought nobody else knew about them :)
My dream is to see one of these amazing and unique fishes in person, they are one of my favourite animals and by far my favourite fish. I hope that I can see one in my lifetime and that their species outlives me. I hope that the various governments can develop sustainable infrastructure in order to help protect this magnificent animal.
Wait, they are 2 meters long?? I always thought (by myself) that these living fossil fishes were, like, half a meter tops. Huh.
Used to be so into nature, these bitesized videos let me reconnect a bit with that part of myself.
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I can’t imagine Seeing the world around you changing your very eyes with life forms
Its eyes are the most scary part
Beautiful too though :)
Maybe I'm just weird (well, I _know_ I'm weird), but I find coelocanths to be ADORABLE!!!❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Since this living fossil have been found i hoped we won't gonna see that giant terror of the seas that is far larger than the great white shark
Maybe around the great white shark size but not around a whale size.
You don’t need to worry! Megalodon was a coastal/tropical shark, and rather conveniently, tropical coasts are the most explored parts of the ocean :)
They are pretty much unchanged too it's pretty amazing