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01-January-2008, 04:01 PM
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Coelacanths
All posts in this thread must in some way be related to coelacanths.
A Zanzibar population was discovered in 2007.
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01-January-2008, 04:04 PM
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Darn, ToSeeked!
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."
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01-January-2008, 06:02 PM
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The Coelacanth is an extinct fish that is no longer extinct because the Regius Professor Chronotis, under funding from King George III, built a time machine in his (out of his) flat and went back to save it. It had the unintended consequence of causing the dodo to become extinct. Since then, his main use of his time machine was to go back and watch TV programs he missed, since he could never figure out how to program his VCR.
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01-January-2008, 07:17 PM
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Tdvance makes up very outrageous stories about coelacanths.
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01-January-2008, 08:23 PM
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not quite--Douglas Adams made that one up.
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01-January-2008, 11:34 PM
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In the movie Atlantis: The Lost Empire, Mr. Whitmore had two coelacanths in an aquarium in his study. As the movie is set in 1914, this is a bit of a goof on the part of the filmmakers.
"His fish are freaking me out." -My brother
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02-January-2008, 04:21 AM
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A preserved Coelacanth specimen in located in the Natural History Museum in London.
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02-January-2008, 07:20 AM
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The coelacanths from the population discovered in 1938 are blue, but the Sulawesi coelacanths are brown.
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02-January-2008, 09:34 PM
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The Pokemon Relicanth is based on the Coelacanth. This has been confirmed by the official makers of Pokemon.
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03-January-2008, 12:47 AM
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I like the instrumental piece called "Coelacanth" by Shriekback.
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03-January-2008, 01:02 AM
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Because Coelacanth haven't changed for literally millions of years, they are considered "living fossils".
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03-January-2008, 11:00 PM
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Because Coelacanth is so hard to spell, they have the popular nickname "dinofish".
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03-January-2008, 11:59 PM
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Often times, believers of Loch Ness point to the Coelacanth as evidence of a possible existence.
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04-January-2008, 12:02 AM
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The coelacanth is briefly mentioned in the evolution sequence during the second episode of Cosmos.
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06-January-2008, 05:13 PM
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Many people mispronounce "coelacanth" as "see-lee-oh-can-th", when it's really just "see-lo-can-th".
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07-January-2008, 11:55 AM
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I once pronounced coelacanth as "ko-leo-canth".
Oops! I don't need coelacanth to believe in Loch Ness Monster! 
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07-January-2008, 11:14 PM
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Quote:
The screenwriters of Atlantis pronounced "coelacanth" wrong in the commentary, but Sagan said it right.
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08-January-2008, 01:13 AM
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Depends on what language you speak.
 coeˇlaˇcanth - from Greek koilos hollow + akantha spine
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08-January-2008, 01:06 PM
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I've always secretly wondered how a coelacanth would taste.
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08-January-2008, 07:57 PM
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Another common nickname for coelacanths is "Old Four Legs".
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20-January-2008, 05:14 PM
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The coelacanth thread seems to have died out.
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