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.

never related to a fish this fast.

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

oh to be a coelacanth, chilling in a cave, doing headstands and staring at a wall

Love how all these videos used of Coelacanths in the sea are them just vibing around, no thoughts, head empty at all times

Coelacanths are the most dedicated playerbase in real life, for the sole reason they haven't changed in so god darn long.

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.

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".

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.

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

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

Can you imagine swimming into a cave, turning on a lantern, and suddenly there are 5 natural perfect fishes looking at you like 🗿

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

Davey could talk about literally anything & I'll be entertained. He was probably my favourite youtuber, tragic what happened to him

this has contributed nothing to my life, please make more

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.

Panda: Is it possible to learn this power? Coelacanth: Not from a mammal.

“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.

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

Coelacanths are fucking god tier I love them so much Also the fact they haven't had to evolve means they are by nature perfect

So......the living embodiment of "No thoughts, head empty"? I've never related to something like I have now

He has not changed for 400 million years because he is without flaw.

It's very surprising how few animals have evolved to taste bad

It looked at all the fancy evolution everyone else got, and went "no, i do not need this, I need urea in my fucking meat"

How can we be talking about real animals that shouldn't be able to exist, without mentioning the Mola-Mola fish or Koalas?

" I want to seduce the Coelacanth " *rolls* " Natural 20 "

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.

Bruh, I was 3 whiskeys deep and went down the KZfaq 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!

I always love hearing about this fish. It’s been a long time since I’ve heard the word “coelacanth” and this was a great reminder. Thank you!

This isn't going to blow up unfortunately, but this is by far my favorite video of yours. It's hilarious, passionate and adorable, and I love it.

I just have to say that your delivery on Coelacanths makes the topic 100x better than it deserves to be. Keep up the good work.

This is my new favorite video of all time. I hope you never feel restricted to make only video game stuff.

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)

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.

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.

If God is proud of the shark and the horseshoe crab, then surely he forgot about the coelacanth

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.

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.”

This is my new favourite video on KZfaq 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.

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.

“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.

my favorite animal of all time is the Thylacine! cute example of convergent evolution of a dog-like marsupial!

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.

Truly one of the perfect lifeforms, rivaling the great *crab*

They live simple lives without much worry. I envy them for that

AVNJ would be livid just reading the title. Coelacanths are his favourite.

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.

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.

did really good on the chapters for this davey, glad you finally got around to doing this idea :)

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.

I love all sarcopterygiians but the coelacanth definitely stands out. Just a lovable luddite living its statistically impossible life.

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.

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.

You know what I like? I like Mudskippers. Spiny little landfish that live in holes, jump, eat dirt, and fight each other!

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 how they just stare at walls and do headstands, they're just so dumb you cant help but love them

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.

-my fav animal is coelacanth! -oh yes. they are cool. loke them) -they do headstand as a prey technic -NOW im totaly sold

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.

I first learned about these thanks to relicanth and I've loved them ever since.

Im preety sure that this is what inspired the pokemon relicanth.

Congratulations, you just managed to made me watch half an hour of someone ranting over a fish

The Coelacanth is way too God damn relatable.

Anime Fighters: "this isn't even my final form" Coelacanth: "Hold my drink..."

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

I hated Relicanth as a kid. After this video, I still hate Relicanth, but also his real life counterpart as well. Awesome video btw

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.

Goddam it you convinced me, if anyone asks me "what's your favourite animal" I'd still say cat, but the coelacanth will be my second choice

take any shot of a basking shark basking and now just imagine its just screaming. makes the shot 10000000 times better.

Thank you for this video it made my day a lot better

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.

Bravaceps Bagginsi, Baggin's Rain Frog. It is a common rain frog from the coast of South Africa, existing only a rocky beach there. It is the worst at doing frog things. It cannot swim. It cannot jump. It cannot lay eggs. It is a terrestrial frog that gets moisture through its belly as it crawls along the damp, misty rocks of the early morning, hunting bugs before it digs back into the ground to wait for the next cool, foggy day. In these burrows, it lays live young, skipping past the egg and tadpole stage to lay Froglets. It's tiny, its adorable, and its a bit stupid. I love it.

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.

They're kinda awesome tbh. Just the most chill, simple animal in existence. We could all learn a bit.

I saw this video in my recommendeds and decided to watch. Immediately I recognized your voice, but I couldn’t remember from where. It took me 10 minutes to realize you were the Pokémon war crimes guy

I already considered the coelacanth to be my favorite fish after helping with an After Effects project with a teacher I had back in high school (who’s unfortunately now dead from cancer, rest in peace, she was an amazing teacher), but after watching this video, I gotta say, it has given me even more reasons to favor this fish out of all the fish that exist in the world

The coelocanth is the embodiment of: "If it aint broke, dont fix it."

My brother-in-law is a coelacanth and although he is bit dim,calling him terrible is quite hurtful.🐟😜

_”This isn’t even my final fo… oh? Hold on a moment, wait, is… oh actually it looks like this is my final form.”_

I thought of a relicanth evolving into itself, then a graphic of that was immediately shown after. 10/10 video.

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.

I like snails! Especially Garden snails, Scaly-foot snails, and especially the Assassin Snails. The way you learned how to love this fish is the exact way I learnt to love snails.

Your delightfully positive attitude makes the world a better place! Thank you for also existing!

I canth believe you made this

glad to see another coelacanth enjoyer in the wild. sure know im not gonna see a coelacanth in the wild anytime soon

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.

Wait until you find out how long opposums have been around. Your backyard trash cat has been around since the Cretaceous man.

The Koala of the Ocean

I guessed 2% brain. I guess I was pretty close to on

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

I just had a thought: the great dying lasted about 100.000 years in the seas and, apparently, lasted around a million or so years on land. That means, we already might be in the middle of a mass exctinction event since the dawn of humanity and not even realise.

I loved this video. I really wanna see more videos like this from you, if you're willing to do them

A panda is my spirit animal, but my favorite animal is a Goliath Grouper. Things grow to the size of boats.

What is this channel? I adore the humour. I'm quite glad the algorythm randomly threw your Portal Osha video at me.

The news report on the sword attack didn’t need the graphic at the bottom to relay the location. We all knew it was Florida without asking.

There's a reason the Coelacanths are called living fossils, and I think this is a great video why

You know what, I am convinced. I do love the brainless ancient vibe fish

I'll have you know that hit it with a pointed rock til it stops moving still makes good Tactical sense.

I’m so glad I just randomly browse KZfaq for videos. You never know when you’ll find a gem of a video.

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