At all times, I am rotating a #coelacanth in my mind

Look what arrived in the mail today! My very own coelacanth Thank you so much, @IcooIey !

The Mets have a big game today and they are playing in NYC!

“Honey where’s my Mets hat?”
“It’s on the octopus… next to the coelacanth.”
“oh. yes, of course.” #LGM #baseball #mets #nyc #coelacanth #Opabinia #picathecat #cats

Now I finally have a paper to go with my cool desktop #coelacanth model!

https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-51238-4

New fossil #fish species scales up evidence of Earth's evolutionary march https://phys.org/news/2024-09-fossil-fish-species-scales-evidence.html

A Late #Devonian coelacanth reconfigures actinistian #phylogeny, disparity, and evolutionary dynamics: Alice Clement et al. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-51238-4

"The discovery of an exceptionally well preserved ancient primitive Devonian #coelacanth fish in remote Western #Australia has been linked to a period of heightened tectonic activity, or movement in the Earth's crust"

Discovering a new #coelacanth #fossil —

Introducing 'Ngamugawi wirngarri'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-7uDOiq4mA

Our latest paper out in Nature Communications led by Dr Alice Clement:

A Late #Devonian #coelacanth reconfigures actinistian phylogeny, disparity, and evolutionary dynamics

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-51238-4

The deep #ocean #photographer that captured a 'living fossil'
The youngest known #fossil #coelacanth is 66 million years old, leading to the assumption that these animals were long extinct. Then, in 1938, a #fish with iridescent blue-green scales and four limb-like fins, was caught in a trawl net off the coast of South Africa. This #coelacanth was dubbed a #livingfossil
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20240507-the-deep-ocean-photographer-that-captured-a-living-fossil

Living fossils: 12 creatures that look the same now as they did millions of years ago
https://www.livescience.com/animals/living-fossils-creatures-that-look-the-same-now-as-they-did-millions-of-years-ago #LivingFossils #genetics #coelacanth #cockroach #GoblinShark #ginkgo #Nautilus

December 22, 1938, Marjorie Courtaney-Latimer, a museum curator in the town of East London (South Africa), couldn't imagine that a simple phone call that morning would lead to an incredible discovery - a "living #Coelacanth"

https://forbes.com/sites/davidbressan/2017/12/22/the-day-a-fossil-fish-was-caught-alive/

Another sketch I did on stream last week.  I wanted to draw a coelacanth, and by the Gods I drew a coelacanth.

[ID: A sketch of a coelacanth drawn in various shades of blue and green. /ID]

I’ll Be Around (In the Ocean) - Coelacanth Green

#FossilASong #Coelacanth #CeeLoGreen #IllBeAround #HashTagGames @hashtaggames

"Coelacanth - Ancient Ancestor of the Deep"

The coelacanth (Latimeria chalumnae) is more closely related to tetrapods (amphibians, reptiles/birds, and mammals) than to other fish.

https://rebeccawangart.com/featured/coelacanth-ancient-ancestor-of-the-deep-rebecca-wang.html

Me when someone would speak about #Coelacanth

https://www.tumblr.com/fuckyeahcoelacanths/724542590140153856/i-am-so-glad-someone-reblogged-one-of-your-posts?source=share

Coelacanths thrived after a mass extinction
https://phys.org/news/2023-07-fossil-coelacanths-switzerland-mass-extinction.html

Early #Mesozoic burst of morphological disparity in the slow-evolving #coelacanth fish lineage https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-023-37849-9

"The biggest #MassExtinction of the last 500 million years occurred 252 million years ago... The #coelacanths, which lived about 10 million years after this disaster, demonstrate that they could still take advantage of the post-#extinction Earth environment to evolve into unique forms throughout their history"

I don't think I've shared my #coelacanth #tea strainer on here yet. Courtesy of @yuasaemi, who imported it for me

There's also a deep-sea isopod model which I'm planning to get at some point!

I was really excited to get this opportunity to design a coelacanth pin for the launch of the 5th Mini Museum collection.

I'm also designing a second pin to represent one of the other specimens (meteorites! dinosaurs! Roman siege engines! the original Woodstock stage!) I don't know what it'll be yet because backers are going to vote on their favorite!

Check out their campaign at www.backerkit.com/c/mini-museum/mini-museum-bk

I'm a strong proponent of self-care, and by self-care, I mean buying myself more fish-themed enamel pins. #Coelacanth #BeHardToKill
https://etsy.com/listing/1191261285/coelacanth-enamel-pin-cute-fish-lapel