To: nickcarraway
From all the articles and pictures I’ve seen about them over the years, I doesn’t appear to me that they are quite as rare as reported.
2 posted on
04/30/2025 9:42:06 AM PDT by
sjmjax
To: nickcarraway
Weird how a lot of stuff the wacky liberals told us went extinct is showing up again. Weird. Another RAT scam for more taxpayer dollars.
3 posted on
04/30/2025 9:43:04 AM PDT by
FlingWingFlyer
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To: nickcarraway
Joe many times do they need to make this as “news”? I remember visiting Harvard’s Museum of Natural Sciences decades ago and saw one on display with descriptions more or less like the story above, but from 1930s.
6 posted on
04/30/2025 9:58:22 AM PDT by
paudio
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To: nickcarraway
7 posted on
04/30/2025 10:02:48 AM PDT by
knarf
(I say things that are true, I have no proof, but they're true.)
To: nickcarraway
I think it’s just a matter of time before we find living dinosaurs in Africa.
8 posted on
04/30/2025 10:06:23 AM PDT by
Kleon
To: nickcarraway
Wonder what it would taste like deep fried? With Beer Batter
To: nickcarraway
" With their long life spans, slow growth, and late maturity, coelacanths are highly sensitive to environmental changes."
Huh?
Seems like we could take some pointers from THEM on longevity of a species...
14 posted on
04/30/2025 10:31:05 AM PDT by
larrytown
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To: nickcarraway
To: nickcarraway
Who documented its existence 70 million years ago? Was it transcribed on a stone?
To: nickcarraway
With their long life spans, slow growth, and late maturity, coelacanths are highly sensitive to environmental changes.I would think that being around for 70 million years suggests otherwise.
25 posted on
04/30/2025 1:27:13 PM PDT by
CommerceComet
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To: nickcarraway
26 posted on
04/30/2025 1:28:48 PM PDT by
dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: nickcarraway
27 posted on
04/30/2025 1:30:16 PM PDT by
Magnum44
(...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
To: nickcarraway
Back in 2021, I ordered the book "A Fish Caught in Time : The Search for the Coelacanth" by Samantha Weinberg. It was originally published in 2000. It gives a detailed history of the fish being discovered in 1938 in a South African fish market by the female curator of the local museum, and the research that went on afterward, and the attempts at catching a live coelacanth, and keeping it alive.
They've been filmed off the coast of South Africa:
National Geographic: Finding the Coelacanth | DinoFish
There's an ad before the video.
28 posted on
04/30/2025 1:31:24 PM PDT by
mass55th
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To: nickcarraway
37 posted on
04/30/2025 6:16:43 PM PDT by
Red Badger
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To: nickcarraway
One of the first books that I actually purchased for myself was the SRA book, "Search for a Living Fossil", about the 1938 discovery of the coelacanth off Africa. I still have the paperback book that I purchased back in 1963 ... and it's still interesting to read.
38 posted on
04/30/2025 7:29:53 PM PDT by
BlueLancer
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