In Atlantis: The Lost Empire (2001), Preston Whitmore has an aquarium with Coelacanths, a living fossil fish that was thought to be extinct until 1938. 24 years after the film’s setting of 1914

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image showing In Atlantis: The Lost Empire (2001), Preston Whitmore has an aquarium with Coelacanths, a living fossil fish that was thought to be extinct until 1938. 24 years after the film’s setting of 1914

LevelStudent on January 22nd, 2020 at 15:52 UTC »

I played Animal Crossing in my youth and would pronounce it "Coal-la-canth" but it's actually pronounced "See-la-canth"

_i_am_root on January 22nd, 2020 at 17:17 UTC »

Considering how much of an explorer he is, I don’t doubt that he found it first.

itstimetogotowork on January 22nd, 2020 at 17:43 UTC »

I saw a coelacanth preserved in the natural history museum in Chicago, so naturally I consider myself an expert on this topic.