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My name is Hawk, I am a good fish trying my best! Join me on my adventures!

[i-lived-bitch-beatdown]

I Lived Bitch Beatdown | QUARTERFINALS | Westley (Princess Bride) VS Coelacanth (Earth)

Westley

Coelacanth

Voting ended onNov 12, 2023

[ilovecoelacanths]

squid…

[monatoxin]

coelacanth my truest friend <3

[all-pacas]

i have a lot of feelings and thoughts about coelacanths today

[all-pacas]

like… they’re blue

you have this mysterious fish that  no one really cared about, because everyone assumed they’d gone extinct with the dinosaurs. an interesting footnote, but one of many, many fossil species. 

and later the coelacanth gets some fame as a so-called “missing link” species, a theory which is now outdated (and not accurate for coelacanths) but was really influential at the time. because they have some weird biological quirks – bones in fins! – people were like “oh, they must be a missing link.” so the coelacanth was launched into some fame with the theory of evolution. it got brought up a lot. drawn in old textbooks as proof.

and then a fisherman finds a weird fish off the coast of south africa and calls a local fish expert who had let it be known she was interested in weird finds, and he brings her the (unfortunately badly rotted) corpse and she’s like “well, this is sure weird,” and sends off the bones to other experts, who start to quietly freak out, and rush to south africa, and rewards are offered for another one, any other one, and a few years later one is caught and frozen before rotting.

and it’s this incredible discovery, this extinct creature come to life (the prehistoric coelacanth lived in swamps and marshes in south america; these now are deep ocean fish in and around the indian ocean, but it’s still recognizably the same species)!

but it’s also blue.

not like, muddy blue, or tumblr-default-background blue.

proper shimmering sapphire blue and white. almost turquoise in some lights. this like… muddy, fossil creature. always drawn in dinosaur browns and grays. and it’s alive and it’s blue. just imagine being the scientist who opened that crate to this creature for the first time. you’re already excited, you’ve known about this fish for decades, you thought it was a story, you know it’s in this box. you expect  to see the weird fins and the strange tail. you know it’s large and odd looking. and you open it up and it’s this beautiful, shining blue, you know?

[all-pacas]

[img described: a coelacanth. it is blue.]

[labete-du-gevaudan]

Animals like the crest-tailed mulgara and the coelacanth are known as Lazarus taxon (plural: Lazarus taxa). These are animals that have supposedly come back from death; they had been declared to be extinct but years and years later, a live specimen of the species is rediscovered. The term was coined in 1982 by Karl W. Flessa and David Jablonski who explained: “At times of biotic crisis many taxa go extinct, but others only temporarily disappeared from the fossil record, often for intervals measured in millions of years, before reappearing unchanged”. Lazarus taxa can be anything from a plant to an insect to a mammal. 

[widebruh]

[fuckyeahcoelacanths]

Coelacanth sighting in Jimbocho, Tokyo ! The japanese name is written on it: シーラカンス (shiirakansu)

That is gorgeous!

[membraneshock]

rip to all the “fuckyeah___” blogs that carried our society at one point </3

[fuckyeahcoelacanths]

[effemimaniac]

we are in the midst of a true Real One

[elbiotipo]

[whoevenisoliver-deactivated2025]

[depsidase]

[koloocheh]

forget about touching grass, i need to touch THE SEA I NEED TO GO INTO THE WATER I NEED TO DIVE INTO THE SEA!!!!!!!!!!!!

[koloocheh]

I NEED TO GO IN THERE ⬇️⬇️⬇️‼️‼️‼️

[kaijuno]

Coelacanth but it’s the size of a galaxy and it’s spots are stars. Imagine that. You’re welcome

[kezral-art]

behold, he is real

[fuckyeahcoelacanths]

Is it me or is it getting hot in here 😳

NO, IT'S COLD, BECAUSE COELACANTHS LIKE THE COLD.

COOOOOOOOOL WATER

[tofublock]

into the opal ocean of your dreams

(process shots and the full res version of this artwork are on my patreon)

[eumorpha]

Ancient One

[hierophant-mean]

Coelacanth my beloved <3 a birthday gift for my good friend B

[fuckyeahcoelacanths]

Gonna have to agree with the people who said they just stumbled here a week or two ago and fell in love---it was like five days before the Big Post that I randomly woke up and started researching ceolacanths at 3 in the morning and found there's such little footage and video for these ancient cuties so to see them in any and all forms is exciting!!

Look at all the work they have to do in order to even get down to where these awesome dudes hang out. THEY DEEEEEP.