Fun Fish Fact Friday (rule)
1y 1mon ago by lemmy.blahaj.zone/u/Zizzy in onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone from www.nsta.org
Coelacanth! I like this picture because it makes it look goofy. Coelacanths were thoguht to be extinct because the youngest fossil we had of one was 66 million years old, but in 1938 off the coast of South Africa, one was caught and identified.
Their fins don't move like pretty much any other fish... because they are from an ancient epoch where a different kind of fish dominated the seas.
This is a cool video of one chilling in its habitat.
Cool video, thanks for sharing!
I love coelacanths so much. I have a soft spot for fish in general, and especially ones like this.
I like it when fish have so many fins. It makes them look reallly cool, just like this one :3