Comments on: A Baby Coelacanth!

By: Kath the Scrappy

Kath the Scrappy — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 05:20:18 +0000

@ 40, sauerkraut.
That was so cool to listen to your Shriekback’s tune while rewatching AKM’s Youtube. It really fits!

By: Kath the Scrappy

Kath the Scrappy — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 05:15:34 +0000

What a TREAT! Thx AKM! I became fascinated with the coelacanth after seeing the preserved one at the Vancouver BC aquarium back in the 70’s. It was about 4 feet long, scales like leather, and the fins. One could just imagine how those fins would evolve into feet, the bone structure was so strong, and eventually turning into an alligator or croc.

Here’s a website that shows a pic of a preserved one:
http://creationwiki.org/Coelacanth

“Coelacanths’ scales produce mucus as their bodies continually excrete oil that works as a laxative, rendering the fish nearly inedible unless they have been dried out and salted” ..snipped..

BTW, congrats too on winning the Cooks Inlet Muckracker award! You so deserve it for putting out the word about the Mt Redoubt oil tanks to a LOT of people – earlier than most MSM.

By: sauerkraut

sauerkraut — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 04:12:26 +0000

You are not really a geek until you’ve listened to Shriekback’s tune from their Oil & Gold album… from 25 years ago.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3b1m-_sI8Is

By: Mudpuppy Wannabe

Mudpuppy Wannabe — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 03:42:14 +0000

beth @14 — ooh, yes, in the gloaming!

How funny — it was actually ‘gloaming’ that kicked off the silliness in my head. (I’ve always loved that word…) How completely ironically perfect that I forgot to include it.

By: curiouser

curiouser — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 00:22:13 +0000

You geek-dom moment was most interesting and enjoyable! You inspired me to make a geeky trip over to wiki where I was shocked to discover that baby coelacanth will grow to about 5-1/2 ft.

By: Ravenwind

Ravenwind — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 00:07:26 +0000

Neat! Thanks, AKM.

And thanks, Beth. “Some words are like that for me: Madagascar, chrysanthemum, Parthenon, duodenum, Constantinople, perchance, gloaming, are just a few.”
Me too, me too! I could pronounce “chrysanthemum” when I was four, and so proud of myself.

By: London Bridges

London Bridges — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 22:13:55 +0000

So instead of all becoming paleontologists, we became Palintoxicologists!

By: LiladyNY

LiladyNY — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 21:35:03 +0000

(((bubbles)))

By: Marnie

Marnie — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 21:35:00 +0000

Cool film clip.

Congrats AKM for the Alaska muckraker dinner award/roast or what ever.
As usual well earned and well deserved.

But don’t rest on you laruals, (that is such a silly saying) – we want film of it.

By: Marnie

Marnie — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 21:31:17 +0000

Unfortunately as soon as deep trolling became possible fishermen were trying to catch as many coelacanth (is it a plural/singular noun like fish and trout?) as possible because there was a bounty on them.
A some point scientists realized they might be responsible for driving the fish into extension, so hopefully the bounties have stopped.

Sometimes Homo sapien is a really stoooopid animal.
The short version of “sapient man” is “sap”.