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Old 26-January-2008, 09:08 PM
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No, but I don't think coelacanths have any more intelligence than most fish.
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No, but I don't think coelacanths have any more intelligence than most fish.
But fish are smart, they spend all their time in schools!
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But fish are smart, they spend all their time in schools!
Many humans do too, yet we spend our time talking about coelacanths... :|

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The existance of coelacanths is often used by cryptozoologists to justify "why I spend all my life and money looking for prehistoric creatures and don't have a real job to support you, mother."

I thought they were used by the creationist community to point out possible holes in Evolutionary theory.

Tell the cryptozoologists to get their own example, like the Eye-Eye
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I think that's spelled Aye-Aye.
While you might not guess it from the pictures, coelacanths are really big- more than four feet long!
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Perhaps coelacanth enthusiasts, through selective breeding, will produce varieties of many sizes and shapes.
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A few days ago, I had a chat with the 'bot called CHAOS about coelacanths.
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Just how do you seal a canth, anyway?
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Coelacanths were featured in an issue of the magazine Owl in the comic Adventures of the Mighty Mites.
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Just how do you seal a canth, anyway?
You canth seal a canth.
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