I SAW a coelecanth. It was at the American Museum of Natural History in Manhattan. I had taken my biology class to the museum with a custom-made scavenger hunt to find the exhibits and fill out the questions, when a museum administrator asked me if I’d like to see a coelacanth. I knew what they were, and was excited to say “Yes”. It was a large grey fish, now swimming in preservative instead of the ocean. Very cool to see it.
Wow! 😀
They have never been able to keep one alive for long after being brought up in a net, and kept for study.