Coelacanth thread Post cute coelacanths

>>19041
thats a very advanced looking fish. is it fast?

These tenacious bastards are still around, ye?

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>>19106
Yeah bby. When they were (re)discovered, the lovals were using their skin to patch their bike tires

>>19121
How often does that happen? Mainstream science discovering an animal that the locals always knew about and just assume where normal, I mean.

I remember a story of scientist discovering a new species of monkey or something cause it was someone's pet.

>>19177
Tends to happen fairly frequently. Okapis and even forests of ancient species of trees were discovered like that, for example.

>>19308
iirc, the ants that keep poisoning plants other than the one that supports their nest started out as a folklore of a curse where only one type of plant would grow in an area

>>19030
I love koalacanths!

These are awesome! Who knew there were so many /c/oelacanth pics?

>>19369
Looked that up, that's cool.

>>20682
It's a marvel that coelacanths themselves still exist.

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>>19065
why is this a thing?

I'm not disapproving, just wondering