@testedcom: At @AMNH #AdamSavage meets a living #fossil with an extraordinary story! Department of Ichthyology curatorial associate Ryan Thoni explains. #coelacanth #extinct #fish

Miles Miller :

Thats a Relicanth

ClaytonCarmine :

Meanwhile Preston Whitmore had them in his aquarium in 1914

ItsOKtoJokeAboutCharlieKirk :

SUPER cool ichthyologist. She was actually out there shredding the nar, trying to drop in and get pitted and then BWWWAAHH there was a coelecanth

Sylphiette :

Can we eat them?.

gokusolosu2 :

so that fish is over 60 million years old 😳

Nicoley GreenOne :

Mae_Rodriguez :

I caught that in animal crossing🤣

koalakawaii2016 :

Looks nowhere near as old tho, maybe a few months but def not 60mil

thetaxidermist :

I have a cast of one on the wall in my shop, I love it when people point and recognise what it is! Fantastic specimen.

Name Lastname :

Straight out of Jurassic Park

Adam Savage’s Tested :

At the @AMNH #AdamSavage meets a living #fossil with an extraordinary story! Department of Ichthyology curatorial associate Ryan Thoni explains. #coelacanth #extinct #fish

Debra Sexton935 :

I remember

chris c :

apparently theres a place around jamaica you can catch them too

Joe Blow :

Didn’t he say that his uncle found it

yivy333 :

Just a thought... show the whole fish 🤨

Alexis 🏳️‍🌈🎀🐕🐴🫍🦦 :

me knowing what this is because of animal crossing

wanabifotografer :

No, thats a fish

RuffRic :

So the fish was alive and know about but only recognized to be alive and know about when a white person said so.

BordFree :

you might want to check on these guys.. they're not looking very lively

Kodi Mykal :

It’s a bichir

Smoke :

The Chinese been eating them for centuries 🤣

J :

And that's not what happened at all. Some local guy fishing caught one. Whatever woman their talking about didn't discover it in a fish market.

MysticalDuckling :

I remember watching @PBS when I was a kid in the late 90s/early00s and learning about this guy. The VHS tape we recorded the show on is still at my parents house somewhere labeled “old oily fish” 😅

Vielika :

This is why access to science and museums is so important. @SaveTheAcademy

Jarrod :

😁😁😁