Let me put it like this: If you've managed to survive for 400 million years without any real noticeable change while the evolutionary arms race waged all around you... then you're probably pretty damn perfect.
They've still evolved quite a bit, it's just all internal stuff that isn't easily noticeable. The body plan's good though so it stays. That's the perfect part.
Genuinely, there is like ~5 minutes of decent footage at the very most and all of it is just this thing going ._. while the recorders are going fucking cocoa for cocoa puffs.
@@user-dc6pm3mc4b I mean.... Technically every single animal on land with a spine is a fish. This isn't an exaggeration. Vertebrates all to current science have a carp buried in the forgotten depths of our family tree.
Yeah, the spot of my favourite animal is contested between sharks and crocodiles for the same reason: youc could go back in time for millions of years, take a look at their predecessors and think "Yep, that's a shark/crocodile".
Crocodiles/Alligators are fucking sick, I don't know how else to put it other than I genuinely forget that they're a real animal until I see footage of them doing their thing.
I like the rabbit. It's a piece of shit that invades everyone's home while acting all cutesy, dies from loneliness, dies from overcrowdedness, dies from being shocked, dies from being bored, dies from partying too hard. The point is that they're fucking idiots and I love them
I think a pet rabbit/bunny would be neat, the more idiotic a fluffy creature is, the better a pet it is. I mean, that's why domesticated cats have been getting progressively dumber and dumber, yeah? :P
@@DaveyGunface Domestic rabbits are so dumb that they don't get stressed as much by a real threat of being prey lol I have a pet rabbit it isn't even afraid of cats (it should be!) They also have a very high mortality rate when young but they multiply very fast. in a way its the same strategy as a Coelacanth but different stats were priotitized
To be fair, I did slowly introduce my rabbit & cat to each other so now they're friends. My cat doesn't have a high instinct to hunt though, and my rabbit is around the same size. My sister did have a cat that was terrified of my rabbit for some odd reason. He never bit it or anything while they visited, but it'd quickly jog away if my rabbit so much as looked at it. Weird cat.
I have a certain amount of respect for coelacanth mains. They have absolutely no regard for the meta (based), and don't get as bodied as they really ought to be simply because they're unbearable in PvP. Everything they do is objectively wrong, but they haven't had to change their playstyle even through several patches simply because absolutely nobody wants to deal with them, not even the devs, not even most human mains, which is saying something because those assholes just love to flaunt their OP P2W stats and tech however they can, including fucking with the priorly unfuckable. That said, I can see why they don't get many new players, since playing as them is just. So. Boring. Hell, even plant players get to have an strategic and engaging resource/time management loop and a fierce meta. I'd only recommend playing coelacanths to people who don't want to interact with the meta but aren't really into, well, fun.
@@MLPGamer44 I miss old Urgot. I miss when there was an unequivocal WORST champ in the game and you could bet I mained that fucker. The satisfaction of 8,000 pings and all chat spamming "URGOD" the second you achieve anything higher than a double kill or .8 KDA was heartwarming.
The other week I encountered a Clan of Corvid Players running a janky meme strategy of mimicking the human playstyle, it was just a mix of Crows, Ravens & Other Corvids pretending to be a society for no other reason than to have a Milsim Roleplay 10/10 would spectate again
Here's something arguably even more boring than the coelacanth, Cave fish! Like really any kind. You kinda just stay in a cave and hope some other players excrete waste so you can get xp.
Some Facts remind me about the Greenland Shark, they are pregnant for 8-18 years and need over 100 years to become adults... It's kind of an wonder how they survive
@@1stCallipostle No one knows. Most of our "endangered" labels are false because we have extremely flimsy understanding of species numbers beyond what we have in pens. Plenty of "confirmed extinct" species end up popping up decades later. Now take that uncertainty, and multiply it by 3000% for any stats on sea creatures.
@@karno6679 crabs are basically the worker rush of evolution low skill floor low skill ceiling it's easy to accomplish, but it's incredibly hard to come up with additions to that
If it's gone over 400,000,000 and EVERY major extinction event including "The Great Dying" without really changing at all then it may be the one of the best animals ever.
I’m going to school for biology and this is pretty accurate lmao. My other favorite fish that exists because it’s useless is the ocean sunfish (mola mola). Also tasting awful is a legit evolution, lots of bugs have it namely the BoxElder bug
I do really enjoy the fact that the Mola Mola just lays an ungodly amount of eggs. If Coelacanths could do THAT instead of having terrible pregnancies we'd be in business.
unfortunately for the sunfish, it's still not inedible enough to avoid parasites. fortunately for the sunfish, it is inedible enough that birds tend to only eat the parasites when they sunbathe. also how weird would being a parasite cleaner be? I'm just imagining a scifi or fantasy story in which humans have a symbiotic relationship with some giant sea monsters to remove and consume parasites, imagine walking across a giant sunfish
Mola mola are far more evolutionarily adept than most give them credit for, they're actually better swimmers than originally believed, they purposely sunbathe to remove parasites, it's thought that's also the cause of their breaching behavior where they launch themselves out of the water and slam back down just like many other species. I don't believe that eating jelly fish is a poor strategy, it's vital to an ecosystem and plenty of species do it. It's definitely a more viable strategy to focus hunting an entire genus vs specializing to just eat a handful of select plant species that are very nutritionally poor (Looking at you koalas, and both types of panda)
@@powerup3005 Oh i know most animals have a ecological niche and they serve one but they are kinda a dumb lookin fish and i dont see a huge difference between eating something like jelly fish and pandas with bamboo but thats because im a red panda apologist lol
Don’t forget, theres a frog so small it can’t balance or jump properly; due to their small ears. and they hurt themselves when jumping. And this frog has a mating cry that can’t be heard by the species, because their ears are so small, and we’re not quite sure how they find mates. Even though they have a mating cry. They think it might just be that they can see eachother make the calls, but the sound is not involved. I believe it’s called a Pumpkin Toadlette
We seriously need more quality content of people praising random animals like this, it's wonderful. One day, I shall have crafted the finest critique on why pycnogonids are based. Also bats are the best animals they have everything, they are fluffy and spooky and crazy diverse
Bats are adorable, maybe not the bigger ones but the smaller ones for sure. Also gotta love their name in German, Fledermaus, which pretty much just translates to "fluttering mouse" which isn't wrong.
I was watching a nature documentary and when i noticed the fruit bats looked kinda like foxes and were cute i decided that humans are programmed to think any furry triangular face is adorable. We have no reason to view bats as cute a cuddly considering the disease risk of bats being virus vectors who we should try and stay away from. (But let them eat mosquitoes for us)
@@jasonreed7522 I'm not sure where, but I think I read somewhere that human brains are programmed to think babies are cute and anything that shares traits with babies are also cute. Why are teddy bears cute? Big ol foreheads and Chihuahua eyes. Why are Chihuahuas cute? Big ol foreheads and eyes. There's got to be something about other mammals that spark the same 'aw cute' that babies do.
For me it's the sloth, it's basically the landbased version of a coelacanth. It can only survive on leafs that are poisonous, and have so little nutritional value that it literally doesn't have the energy to turn on its brain most of the time.
“He’s just a cute little man, and has all the qualities a cute little man should have,” cracks me up. I love the way people talk about their dogs, it’s always so funny.
Koalas live in Australia There are basically no predators in Australia that's also the reason for why you can see platypuses(not Perrys) and echidnas(klock klock klock) today (since they come from a time long, and I mean _long_ gone)
@@AlinaAniretake pandas are different, in the sense that they were seemingly designed to die off naturally at some point, while Mola-Mola and Koalas feel like something someone would create to troll nature itself.
Bruh, I was 3 whiskeys deep and went down the RU-vid black hole and found this. I don’t know if you said a damn thing during this video or if it was the whiskey speaking through my headphones. Either way you, sir, keep on keeping on, this video made one of my rare days off better. Cheers!
@@Hypnotically_Caucasian Recommendations, scroll one page down from the top of the list and pick something. After a few layers of this you'll be in some very unique territory.
That’s actually a very common evolutionary strategy, mostly with insects. Many brightly colored insects are either poisonous or just bad tasting. This is to earn predators that they are nasty so they don’t make the mistake of eating them.
Not a 10 page essay, but I will say that coelacanths as an order [actinistians] have been around for 400 million years, the coelacanth species we have today are relatively recent additions to the order, in the scope of things. Had to say something.
And to add onto that, the order Actinistia was actually pretty diverse and there are plenty of extinct coelacanths that look almost nothing like the ones alive today
Aw yeah, Davey Gunface out here with the biology lessons, in a fun well put together way which genuinely leaves me with more than I began with. Keep up the amazing work, and have a lovely day.
@@giantlips1462 Wherever my trails take me I'm glad I can always count on some positive words from the true giant lips. Thank you friend, I want you to know that your words mean a lot, and that you too are epic.
20:45 Holy moly I actually guessed it right. I always found Coelacanths really cool from a paleontological perspective, so it was crazy to hear just how.... lame they truly are. still doesn't really change that I like them, but it was a bit of a sad revelation though those headstands are pretty cool as well as how rare they are in OG animal crossing, where I first learned of the Coelacanth.
As a lifelong fan of the Darius series (a long-running series of side-scrolling shmups where the bosses are modeled after sealife), I am VERY familiar with this fishie. The bosses modeled after this old boi (King Fossil and it's ilk) are prevalent throughout the series, often being the first boss.
Just love that the science community was like “oh my god, these things aren’t extinct?!” and fishermen were just like “what, those? Yeah those things suck. Real garbage fish. Just absolute shit.”
The only reason Coelacanath's might not be my new favorite animal is because Tardigrades have survived in the vacuum of space when Nasa threw them out of a rocket. (As well as many other things that would kill most other organisms)
Tardigrades are weird because they will survive the most extreme punishment, yet their most prolific predator in the world isn't some super specialised hunter or anything, its a goddamn snail, not even a special snail, just a regular ass snail... After snails their most common hunter is themselves though, because why not. Tardigrades basically saw the resistance traits and went "Oh dang, I can become immune to nuclear bombs!? Sick", and then promptly forgot to get any normal defences.
If they're too awful to eat I'm shocked they didn't evolve. No pressure forcing them to. Those shark bites may be juveniles testing the world out, occasionally a fish gets bit. I'm sure that young shark will never try eating one again.
Most likely because tasting bad wasn’t a disadvantage so the ones with that gene still did get to reproduce, and tasting bad doesn’t effect the other thing that could kill them, not getting enough food.
This is my new favourite video on RU-vid my goodness. Coelacanth superiority they are better than humans. This channel is amazing, you manage to convey so much emotion even with the intentionally monotone voice.
I love how they dont fuck enough to evolve but are also simultaneously the pinnacle of evolution considering they're the oldest and most successful unchanged species not once but twice.
My favourite animal is nerpa- the seal from lake Baikal. Mainly because cute and how did you get here, this lake is >20° from the closest place where the normal seals live
I love the fleshy lobes on this guy. Also love how their favorite pastime is staring at the wall, menacingly. Imagine being a species that just looks at flat featureless surfaces good chunk of the day lmao Also RIP maybe 100-200% of views for a WoW snippet being used as a preview. - Written from my fleshy lobes.
The thing about coelacanths is they actually have changed quite a bit. For one there used to be way more! The only modern ones live deep in the ocean. There used to be coelacanths that lived in fresh water, coastal ones, coelacanths everywhere. Ours are just the last of a larger family. Some of the freshwater ones were nearly 20 feet long, look up Mawsonia. Also, they are closer to us land vertebrates than they are to what we normally think of when we say "fish". Closest relatives are stuff like lungfish, which can breathe air for a long time.
Your affection for the coelacanth is very reminiscent of the affection many Pokémon fans have for Quagsire. The whole "this thing is too dumb to have survived this long, yet somehow has, and I fucking LOVE them for it." Surprised I guessed the pregnancy length right. ... and I know this is barely related to the video topic but... I fucking *LOVE* foxes- both the standard red fox (who can survive in nearly any environment, and have a minimum of 47 different subspecies *on their own!*) but also the vulpine group on the whole. There are foxes on every continent, sans Antarctica. They're just... adaptable little dudes.
“Specifically rural Kansas.” Felt that in my bones. Growing up, my town’s water wasn’t technically safe to drink. Too high nitrates made it borderline poison and the town had to give out free bottled water to at risk members of the town.
It's crazy, and I may be projecting here but people just got so condescending about it. No Jonathan, age 57 elementary school P.E. teacher, I CAN drink the dangerous chemical water but I would ultimately prefer not to. Leave me be.
@@DaveyGunface the water near (around a 100km radius) mining zones or near mountains tends to be either disgusting af, or straight away poison. If you go hiking one day in a volcano-riddled land like Japan, Chile, or most countries in Oceania, and see an unnaturally blue river/stream - that water is saturated with either sulphur or sulphuric acid, and anything with lungs or gills that approaches it has a decently high chance of perishing from breathing too close to it.
The behavior makes sense when you consider the theory that deep sea predators really don't have much a metabolism due to being so large. The Irish deep sea Shark (can't remember it's exact name) lives 500 years blind and just kinda mosey through the water.
Pangolins are my favorite animal hands down. No specific species. Love em so much, they're one of the only things I actually donate money to in order to help their conservation.
My favorite is the Kakapo, the worlds fattest parrot. They can't fly their only defense is to stand very still and hope you leave, which worked well until humans introduced rats, cats, and stoats which hunt by smell. They also will not mate unless there is good fruit growth meaning they only have a mating season every 2-4 years. There is also the incident in which a male Kakapo named Sirocco attempted to mate with a zoologist (look up "shagged by rare parrot" if you haven't seen it). Sirocco was later named "spokesbird" of conservation by the New Zealand PM despite his status as a sex offender.
Dragon fish, I was made fun of as a kid for wanting my science project to be that. Note in the late 90's there wasn't too much info on them as a species but I stubbornly plugged on. And now I've found out there are more species and it makes my inner child happy.
the worst part about the coelacanth is that it's pronounced "see-la-canth" Edit: another favorite animal of mine that is similar to the coelacanth is the olm, and i'm pretty sure scientists once found an olm that literally did not move for 7 whole fucking years.
I've got two favorites. if it comes to fantasy animals included, it should be obvious based on my profile pic (dragons, western variety, although i'm all for fucky variants) but for real animals it's short-haired black cats
Funny enough I’ve got a similar reason for the Nile crocodiles being my favorite. They have remained unchanged for millions of years. They are also able to just choose to become pancakes and solute being insane killing machines that have perfected the art of ambush, they still get bodied by an idiot with a shovel givin them a big ol boop with it
Another example of truly useless fish that survive by just bring useless is the moonfish aka opah. They are absolutely massive and extremely slow. And dont even really react to anything. Well. They survive by being absolutely awful to try and eat. Their skin is rediculously touch, and undearneath is meat thats absolutely not worth the effort. They taste awful. You can occasionally find one swimming with a big hole in its body, from where a hopeful shark or other predator took a bite, only to realise that it tasted like complete sh*t and gave up. Literally surviving by bring too useless to even be part if the foodchain.
I'll personally note that I think there's a difference between your favorite choice of pet and your favorite choice of wild animal. Which yes, I know that's kinda pretentious, but I mean it because like... If you're enough of an animal nerd. I know damn well there's probably at least one relatively obscure animal that you don't have any reason to meet IRL but just think are really neat.
They have had changes in the bone structures in their heads, which are usually significant for every type of animal even though it may be too subtle to appreciate at first glance.
My favorite animal is the pangolin. Imagine an armadillo with dragon scales was mixed with an anteater, and then given claws that could break through concrete. And they sometimes live inside hollow trees which is adorable as hell.
Orcas are my favourite. They are mammals who just said "you know what? Fuck them legs bro" and crawled back in to the primordial soup we all came from. They are smart enough to talk. They hunt other whales which makes them an apex predator and thus making them rad as hell. They can pop back up anywhere on the world from the frozen arctic to the Mediterranean and the idea of a Orca couple having a world tour is both awesome, cute and somewhat possible. They have matriarchal societies which is somewhat interesting And they are bullies. Absolute sadistic bastards who literally play with their food. They can probably taste fear in their preys flesh and they like it. In my language they are called "killer whale" which is a fitting and also somewhat undescriptive name since sperm whales exist. Also black and white
It's especially surprising that they aren't hostile to humans in the wild... As far as we know! Some say it's because they know to leave no witnesses, others say they're smart enough to know there is one other species that you shouldn't mess with. Though in a way it makes sense that captive orcas have lashed out at humans. It'd be like keeping an adult human in a relatively small box and expecting that person to accept that fate
I like Coelacanths for 2 reasons: Pokemon & Yugioh. - Pokemon: Relicanth is cool and its connections with the Regis just add to its mystique. - Yugioh: There's an old Normal monster named "Souleater". It's my second favorite Fish monster in the game, and it is kinda reminiscent of a Coelacanth. My favorite Fish monster in yugioh is "Superancient Deepsea King Coelacanth" who's just... the coolest thing ever.
This is why I love your channel Davey, you aren't afraid to completely break from the mold of gaming videos to put out something you are just passionate about. All of your videos are on my "rewatch constantly because I relate" list and you are just a nice seeming guy which sadly isn't too common in the gaming space.
While appearing the same, the modern coelacanths are possibly so genetically different from the ones in the past that they aren’t reproductively compatible. And therefore a separate species. Of course we can’t test this as we can never know the ancient coelacanth’s genome, but genes do not stop mutating just because physical appearance doesn’t change Edit: but of course they probably have not evolved as their cousins that lead to us
OOO OOO, i love animals stuff. My favorite animal is the nautilus. there are only 6, possibly 7 species of nautilus and they have remained unchanged for 500 million years. they’re so cool and alien and i love them. I would slaughter millions to ensure the survival of their genus.
The west Indian ocean version has been my favorite animal since I saw its exhibit in the Smithsonian as a child. It and manatees made me want to be a marine biologist for pretty much my entire childhood.
my brain is too sleepy to process words that aren't pronounced how they're spelled. no matter how many times you said "coelacanth" in this video, every time i look at the word my brain goes "koala canth"
