On this video, Atlas Obscura digs out an historic, big fish from the archives of the Moist Specimen Assortment at Chicago’s Subject Museum. The Coelacanth species of fish has been round for over 400 million years and is extremely oily, and barely smelly. Though I can admire the yellow eyeballs and sharp enamel of this specific Coelacanth from afar, it is not a fish I would be thrilled to swim with. 

What’s it prefer to unbox an enormous, historic fish? On this episode of Object of Intrigue, we go to the Moist Specimen Assortment of Chicago’s Subject Museum to look at the method of unpacking a Coelacanth, a fish whose species has been round for greater than 400 million years and may develop to greater than 2 meters (6 ft 6 inches) lengthy and weigh as much as 200 kilos.