Comments on: Coelacanth Extinction?

By: bach

bach — Mon, 30 Jan 2006 23:51:35 +0000

You have to think this fish went off the maps for 65 million years we only have seen a few of them in the last 100 years maby this is like a great awaking for them like they went into a massive hybernation during one of the mass extinctions and are now all just waking up and some that were sick,old. or even just needing to breed (like catfish come to the shallow banks) but they are natrualy deep ocean fish so maby they just went back to the deep

By: Loren Coleman

Loren Coleman — Thu, 19 Jan 2006 14:49:22 +0000

Cryptomundo reader and correspondent, Dr. Victor Springer, former Curator of Fishes, and currently Senior Scientist Emeritus at the Smithsonian, sends along the following reply to 2400bc’s above remarks, with permission to post it here:

“Unless this comment above was tongue-in-cheek, the notion that stated species go extinct because or when something better is replacing them is off base. Species can go extinct because of natural phenomena (e.g., a lake with endemic species drying up because the springs that were feeding it dried up) or changes caused by human-induced phenomena, such as pollution or overfishing.”

By: 2400bc

2400bc — Tue, 10 Jan 2006 03:21:03 +0000

According to the religion of evolution things go extinct because something better is taking its place, so evolutionists should be pleased to hear the coelacanth is finally “moving on” to make room for a more fit creature.

By: Doug

Doug — Tue, 10 Jan 2006 02:49:01 +0000

Don’t know if they are going extinct or not, since (to my knowledge)there has not been a census of them taken. It does seem likely, though, since that many have been caught and so few are seen. My concern is what could possibly causing them to move up from the depths? This could help to prevent extinction if it were known.