Wow a time traveling fish, wish I could time travel, but this demonstrates the nature of science because it makes sense how a fish of any other animal could have found a safe place to hide for thousands of years and noone could find them and they avoided all the natural storms and blah! Dunno if I answered that right but anyway bonus I'm the first one to comment!
When this fish was rediscovered, how did the scientific community respond? How did this rediscovery effect our understanding of the fossil record?
I think the scientists reacted really happily that there was a prehistoric fish still alive and they probably took one apart to study what the insides were like.
The discovery of this fish is remarcable. who new that something that has been in a museums fossil was caught on a fishing line. This makes me think that maybe other creatures and animals that have been recorded as extinct will be alive but, we need to look harder to find them. One of the things that makes me wonder is how did the person with that fish on the line know that it was an extinct fish in a fossil at a museum?
It makes me think..... are dinos extinct!!!???
When information is produced that makes a theory or law look unlikely, the theory/ law isn't passed aside, never to be looked at again. More research has to be done before they can do anything with the theory or law. And even when they do eventually make up their minds, they will just alter the theory/ law so it's still true. It makes no sense just to throw facts in the bin, so they just change it so it's still scientifically true.
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i totally agree with meg.
More research has to be done before they can do anything with the theory or law!. that is true- i think and i call this discovery a "science accident". they prove read and told everyone that, that fish was extinct but her it is today. So more research has to be done before they can do anything with the theory or law.
ya i bet dino's do exist somewhere in the world. We'll find them one day!
This discovery realtes to mr erdosys comment a few days ago about finding a rabit fossel in the prehistoric layer of dirt and stuff. The recent discovery of this fish has changed the fossil record and how scientists think about how the dinos deminished.
I also think that this reminds me of Ice Age 3 because in the movie all the dinosaurs were hidden in a world right under the charecters noses.
Yes Chloe!!!!
I think the basic fact that something that was alive at the same time as the dinosaurs (65 million years ago)and is still alive now is amazing! The discovery changed the scientific record completely, it changed how we look at the dinosaur age and probably almost defiantly made scientists more enthusiastic on finding and looking for more ancient animals that have survived all our worlds natural disasters.It has defiantly made me think about what could be out there... x
i agree with meg, it does make you think if something is really extinct there might be many more things out there that people dont know is still alive just like the fish and chloe that thing you said about ice age is exactly what happened with the fish.it was right there and no one knew. i think it is really cool that the fish were in that spot all the time and no one knew.
I agree with Meg, that was my first reaction when Mr.Erdosy told us about it in class. I think that it is amazing how any living thing could survive such a disater (when the meteor hit) but what is even more amazing is that it is still living now. I think that when word reached the scientist when the fish was rediscovered, that it made them rethink alot of their theories/laws. The fact that the fish is still living just tells us that there may be other living creatures out there that have survived up until these days. It also tells us that the scientist's hypothesis was rejected since they believed that the fish was long gone.
i agree with all
I think that the timetraviling fish is pretty well,.... AWSOME This fish be given a Nobel Prize, I mean seriosly that fish is so wack, that it can stay in the same place for so much years!
i think that this fish is not very amazing since the scientists had no reason to believe the fish was extinct! this show what mr. e said about how laws are never really laws ( so why do we call em laws?) and why we need to always be attentive to whats going on in the world. i think that this discovery made you rethink that discovering something that is found many layers under us, does not mean it is still alive. i also dont see how this is very big, because if scientists studied the fossil, they should be able to relate the fishes traits to now and if it is designed to live like that, if it CAN live now, it probably is. but you also have to study the timeline it went through. Mimi, i respectfully disagree
james, i respectfully disagree)
I agree with meg i wonder about dino saurs nowwww :P
I would have to respectfully disagree with Robert and because I think that this fish is very important even if scientist did not know for certain that the fish was extinct, the discovery shows as Meg said that dions might still be alive and living in some hidden place much like these time traveling fish. I would also have to disagree with James I do not believe that the fish should be given a Nobel Prize for being “awsome”
I think this is very weird and awesome. I can't believe something like this happened, cause if scientist said this creature was extinct a long time ago, now the discovery makes me think that other creatures that are "extinct" still live in planet Earth!!! This makes laws not be "laws' any more. I really liked the national geographic website :)
i agree with nico who knew that that would hav happen
I respecfully disagree with robert and agree with amanda and nico. This fish could change many things as to what scientist believed because their hypothesis was rejected. Scientist believe that the dinosaurs are extinct but there is still a chance that they could still be living out there somewhere...who knowss?? But this fish is very important because it could help us get more data and find out more things about what really happened.
ok i defentley do not agree with beccy because any animal that would have survived would hav died later from lack of food and water and theese fish are really rare and are probably many miles down they ill probably be very few iin numbers
I think that finding the Coelacanth was an amazing discovery and a really strange one. I agree with Nico that this makes the scientific law not a scientific law anymore. And it makes the Coelacanth a very strange fish.
I agree with Meg and Mimi. It makes me think what else is out there, where would they be.
i dont think ppl understand what im saying
I think this prehistoric fish was yet to be found. Take the shark for example it's lived throw the aged of dinosaurs and so have whale and alligators many animals survived the theory of the meteor explosion. So why would scientist just expect for this animal to be extinct.
I agree with mimi. its crazy how a fish as old as dinosaurs was cot on a modern fishing line. if they survived at the depths of the ocean then there's probably more prehistoric fish down the that we would never of thought of. if prehistoric fish survived from under water then there might be dinosaur in deep caves.
i also agree with mimi because its weird how the fish survived that long