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emiplayzmc · 2 years

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I HAVE AQUIRED A COELACANTH!!

WHOOO, COELACANTH!!

#animal crossing new horizons #animal crossing #new horizons #coelacanth #animal crossing coelacanth #animal crossing fishing #acnh fishing

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jvgsjeff · 5 months

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I caught two coelacanths in the snow the other day, just two minutes apart. 😁

#animal crossing new leaf #animal crossing #new leaf #acnl #coelacanth #nintendo #3ds #animal crossing jump out

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fuckyeahcoelacanths · 6 months

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A brief coelacanth cameo in the Animal Crossing: New Horizons: Deserted Island Diary manga by KOKONASU☆RUMBA

#coelacanth #coelacanth art #animal crossing new horizons #deserted island diary #animal crossing manga #kokonasu rumba #coelacanth in comic books #coelacanth in manga #coelacanth in video games

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shower-racoon · 4 months

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all my haters become baiters when I catch the fish of success

#terraria version of this post would just change 'fish' to 'crate'#minecraft version would change 'fish' to 'book' or 'bow'#never played stardew valley so I don't know what the best item you can get from fishing there is #but animal crossing would be 'coelacanth'

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midnightmoonbeams · 1 year

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Caught my first ever Coelacanth!

March 30th, 2020

#animal crossing #animal crossing new horizons #acnh #fishing #raining #coelacanth #video #nintendo #nintendo switch #queue

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ilovecoelacanths · 1 year

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It’s time for some facts about coelacanths!

I said I’d do this a while ago and I forgot so I’m doing it now because coelacanths are the best and more people should know how cool they are! I did not mean for this post to turn out so long but I promise the facts are very good (how could they not be when coelacanths are so cool)

There are two living species of coelacanth, Latimeria chalumnae, the West Indian Ocean coelacanth, and Latimeria menadoensis, the Indonesian coelacanth.

This is a West Indian Ocean coelacanth, they’re dark blue and each one has a unique pattern of white spots:

And this is an Indonesian coelacanth:

Indonesian coelacanths are noticeably different from West Indian Ocean coelacanths due to their background colouration being more of a greyish brown rather than blue. Their spots also appear more gold due to light reflecting off them :)

Coelacanths are old! The oldest coelacanth fossils date to more than 400 million years ago, and they were thought to have gone extinct about 66 million years ago, until 1938 when one was accidentally caught off the coast of South Africa and found by Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer.

Latimer contacted her friend, the ichthyologist J. L. B. Smith, who confirmed the fish was a coelacanth! Smith was given the honor of naming the fish, and he named it Latimeria after Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer. (Shown below with the coelacanth she found)

After their discovery, people mistakenly described them as the 'missing link' thanks to their leg-like fins, and this myth persisted thanks to the interesting way coelacanths swim, which appears almost like crawling.

Even today they are sometimes called 'living fossils' because of how little they have changed over millions of years. This label is not technically accurate since they are still evolving, but they do have one of the slowest evolving genomes in the animal kingdom, probably because they're already very well adapted to their environment and they don't have a lot of selection pressures affecting them.

Coelacanths can be more than six feet (up to two meters) long, weigh up to 200 pounds, and are estimated to be able to live up to 100 years! They are covered in hard, armor-like rough scales that are themselves covered in tiny spikes called denticles, which help protect coelacanths from rocks and other fish that might want to hurt them.

They also give birth to live young in litters of 10-25 pups and new research suggests they can be pregnant for as long as 5 years! This would mean that they beat out the frilled shark as the record holder for the longest gestation period by more than a year!

(Unfortunately this means that the birth rate for coelacanths is very low, which doesn't help their small populations. The West Indian Ocean coelacanth is critically endangered, and the Indonesian coelacanth is classified as threatened :( )

Coelacanths are what’s called a lobe-finned fish! This means that their fins look more like stumpy appendages than skin that's been stretched over flexible spines. Their closest relatives are lungfish, and that actually means they’re more closely related to us humans than they are to ray-finned fish like tuna or goldfish! Hell yeah!

Coelacanths live in the "twilight zone" which is between 500-800 feet deep. It’s hard to study coelacanths in their natural habitat for extended periods, but they never survive trips to the surface due to the pressure change, so a lot about their behavior is still pretty unknown.

Coelacanths are generally slow moving, nocturnal drift hunters, which means they tend to sort of just eat whatever fish cross their path, but they have a lot of interesting adaptations that make their particular method of drift hunting unique.

First, coelacanths have a hinge in their skull, called an intracranial joint, that lets them open their mouth more than would be possible with just their jaw.

Second, they display an interesting behavior when feeding, where they will float with their head pointed down, almost like they're doing a headstand. They do this while floating along catching prey, and it seems to be working out for them.

Third, coelacanths have a sixth sense! They have an organ in their snout called a rostral organ that functions as an electrosensor to help locate their prey by detecting the electrical signals given off by other animals!

They truly are a unique animal. They even have a caudal (tail) fin with three lobes instead of the two-lobed tail that is common in many fish.

(source for this diagram)

And here you can see the three-lobed caudal fin on a real coelacanth (and also you can have a reminder of how big these guys are. They are not little fish)

It seems coelacanths also have more similarities to their relatives, the lungfish, than we used to think. It turns out coelacanths have a vestigial lung! They have a lung that they don’t use anymore! It’s all shrivelled and wrinkly but it’s there!

They also have a spiral shaped intestine! Some sharks have this too, it’s basically shaped like a spiral to increase surface area for maximum nutrient absorption.

Another way they differ from many other fish is their swim bladder, which is how they control their buoyancy! In most fish the swim bladder is filled with gas, but coelacanths' swim bladders are filled with oil and fat instead!

Coelacanths are also the proud owners of notochords! They don’t have backbones, they’re so old they were around before animals had backbones and they just never got one, they still have their oil filled notochords! Don't fix it if it's not broken, right?

Also, just in case you were wondering, they would not taste good, they are full of all sorts of oils (as mentioned in the above two facts), plus they do have very hard and rough scales. (But also even if they did taste good it would be a bad idea to eat them since there aren't a lot of them left and it's generally considered bad to eat endangered species)

Well, that's the end of my coelacanth facts, so if you took the time to read this whole long post that was just me talking about my favorite animal, thanks for sticking around! Here, have some bonus content!

Coelacanths make a guest appearance in Atlantis: the Lost Empire!

I like seeing them in the movie so I ignore they weren’t discovered when the film takes place in 1914 (easy to ignore) and that they wouldn’t survive the trip to the surface due to the immense pressure change (less easy to ignore but I do it anyway) :)

My friend @thelunarbee even crocheted me one for a Christmas present :’) his name is Milo and I love him so so much

I also drew a coelacanth a while ago, here's where I posted it if you want to see it :) (I mean, I draw coelacanths all the time but those are mostly doodles, this one I actually put effort into)

Alright that's all I have to say, but I hope you liked the coelacanth facts and remember, if coelacanths can survive for 400 million years, you can make it through today. Be kind to yourself :)

#coelacanth #i love coelacanths #sorry for the long post #me rambling #featuring the coelacanth aka my very favorite animal #this turned out way longer than i meant it to lol #fish #fish facts #coelacanth facts #im also a big fan of relicanth the coelacanth pokemon #i dont know anything about pokemon but i love bulbasaur and relicanth #i also want to play animal crossing very badly because i know there are coelacanths in it #basically if a piece of media has coelacanths its a guarantee that i'll want to consume it #also i love reading tags so if you have any thoughts feel free to tag this post #credit for that last coelacanth pic with all the hearts: me! I did that :)

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osocuteclub · 1 year

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"Blast from the past! I caught a coelacanth!"

Devonian creatures are awesome ♥

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#coelacanth #fish #art #small business #animal crossing #deep sea #pins #My art

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neelyowhora · 1 year

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painted this little scene of someone sleeping after catching a coelacanth on animal crossing gamecube. forgive me for the weird perspectives and mistakes, i’m just getting back into painting after not doing it for over 2 years.

#animal crossing gamecube #animal crossing #painting #art #acrylic painting #coelacanth

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mythquak3 · 12 days

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DAWG I JUST CAUGHT A COELACANTH??

I DIDNT EVEN MEAN TO CATCH IT ITS RAINING ON MY ISLAND AND I WAS LIKE "that's a big fish" AND I CAUGHT IT AND IT WAS A COELACANTH?????

#acnh #fishing #animal crossing #animal crossing new horizons #coelacanth

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nintendosnap · 1 year

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