He must have been dating someone else who has an even greater knowledge of coelacanths.

Jokes aside, maybe OOP didn't cite their sources correctly. There is no bigger turnoff, especially on your first date. My mom used to say know your facts and have your sources handy. Best dating advice and honestly the only one that really matters

100% this is it.

Sea anemones are relatives of the jellyfish. They have these tiny hairs growing on them that they use to feed by stunning fish, shrimp, zooplankton, and so on.

But they can survive for years without food. They're like jellyfish in that way. There are even sea anemones that have lived longer than 70 years with the proper care.

They're found all throughout the world's oceans, and they can slowly move too. There are also fish that live inside them called anemonefish. The sea anemones protect them from predators and share their food scraps.

In tropical waters, sea anemones latch on to coral reefs or rocks.

Starfish are echinoderms and relatives of the sea urchin. There are as many as 2,000 starfish species around the world. Not all of them are star-shaped either. There's even a species with 30 arms.

When they get attacked by a predator, they'll rip off their own arm to get away while the predator eats it. Their arms can regenerate, so I guess they regrow later.

Starfish can eat almost anything in the ocean. They feed by pushing their stomach out of their mouth and directly digesting their prey. Fun fact, there's an area in Kumamoto Prefecture where they eat starfish. As you'd expect from a relative of the sea urchin, you strip the skin to eat the insides, like with sea urchins.

Even in other languages, starfish mostly have star-related names. For instance, in France they're called...

Looking at the post at face value, and joke aside, it sounds that it was a one way conversation for 30+ minutes, non-stop.

Esoteric knowledge can be interesting. A sure-sell selling point about you to a stranger on a first meeting it ain't.

"Hi, how are you? ...Good? Great. Let me go on for 30min. on a topic you may care or not about and do so uninterrupted, and if you don't like it, I will make a quippy post online about it, okay? Like, for sure people will take my side. Win/win."

Talk living fossils to me and I'll do anything you want baby.

You tell me about cryptids and you can just take me right there on the table.

He's just studying for the test.

No lectures before the third date, everyone knows that. Huge red flag.

Did anyone else not know it's pronounced see-la-kanth? I've been saying it wrong in my head all these years omg.

Neurodivergent person shares one special interest, neurotypical tells you everything you need to know about them.

The nights I stayed up trying to catch as many of those fuckers as I could in animal crossing

Man getting lengthy lectures from a woman, and here I am talking to myself. What is wrong with some people? Not me; I know what’s wrong with me.

This would absolutely work on me

Thanks to Pokémon I immediately knew what kind of fish the post was about…

maybe he was vegetarian and would have wanted to hear more about sea"cucumber" instead of fishy things.

I'm down. After that I'm paying for the meal. We're definitely exchanging digits.

I wonder if this is what it's like dating Lindsay Nikole.

For the record, she's one of my favorite YouTubers.

Maybe I should contact her and ask her to talk at me about colecanths so I can give her feedback.