Coelacanth facts: they're called living fossils | Animal Fact Files

On this episode of Animal Fact Files discover some living fossils that are still facing extinction.
Sorry for the awkward edit around 1:12. We were fixing an error in the video! Just as an FYI, coelacanths average about 6 feet (or 2 meters) in length. ;)
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[@t-rexstudioproductions781]

Coelacanth were thought to be extinct
But it suddenly made a comeback

[@AnimalFactFiles]

True! Wonder what other discoveries await us!

[@muhammadthegaylord4155]

Wow awesome mate. This species have something in common with Dunkleosteus, that being their skin/scale looking like it's rock hard, my favourite species of fish. :)

[@aetherslugstar1889]

Coelacanths are so cool.

[@plesuidsues8037]

New fave channel!❤️

[@AnimalFactFiles]

Thanks so much! 😻

[@diabeticzookeeper8368]

0:07 what that top fin do 😏

[@AnimalFactFiles]

We stan a funky fin~~

[@indyreno2933]

Hagfish are vertebrates, more specifically, hagfish are only the most basal living vertebrates, to be fair hagfish are fish.

[@awesome5601u]

So interesting!

[@prunktanner]

Lucashevitch

[@BigBoiRedFrog]

How old are they?

[@dineshkrishnan4029]

I hunted this fish in Ark: Survival evolved!

[@t-rexstudioproductions781]

Coelacanth and Lungfish are Lobe Finned Fish

[@solarlola5953]

Animal crossing pocket camp brought me here

[@AnimalFactFiles]

Yassssss!!

[@cameronchristensen984]

New horizons

[@serminkran1320]

Me:Wow they are so co-
AFF:They are facing exctintion.
Me:😢

[@AnimalFactFiles]

Same

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Dodo