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Sea Monsters... Real or Fantasy?
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Unusual sea creature. What is it???
LINK TO ORIGINAL BLOG: Under The Sea
Feb 23rd, 2007 by sparky23
QUOTE FROM BLOG: [ The picture at the top of this post is of a creature (one of many bizarre and odd beasts) that washed up after the tsunami in Southeast Asia in December of 2004. Its alien strangeness reminds us of the natural possibilities]
It's an interesting photo, but the article says nothing. (That's the entire article, that one sentance quoted above). There are no footnotes, no refferances, no news reports, nothing to say where the photo came from.
I am always interested in strange and unusual sea creatures and would like to find out more about this one. I have searched on Google, but can find no info about this event, or this creature. Does anyone have an info about this creature? Perhaps someone knows of any articles about it? if so please post a link to them in my comments, I would love to find out more about this. Thanks!
~EK
UPDATE:
September 7, 2007
Thanks to our great readers, the creature in the above photo has been identified as a Spookfish.
Spookfish
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Do you know what it is? Please leave a comment with more info about this unknown sea creature. I'll update this lense as more info come available.
Thanks!
~~EK
lexx wrote
Tsunami would of washed up heaps of undiscovered species= this may be one of them. It is not fake as some has stated.. Very interesting indeed.
Posted April 27, 2009
whatever wrote
idk about it being real or fake but it sure is something that would be cool if is is and it looks like everyone is more interested in proving it fake than real.
Posted April 26, 2009
whatever wrote
idk about it being real or fake but it sure is something that would be cool if is is and it looks like everyone is more interested in proving it fake than real.
Posted April 26, 2009
SeaMonster Hunter Girl wrote
I agree that it looks fake. As you can see, on the body you can spot gills right to the left of the black spot on its body. I suppose that must be a "second eye" :p It looks like a fish and a squid's head attached to its nose. The eye on the squid's head looks like it has been drawn, and the tail looks like a fish tail carved into a strange pattern. You can also see fake teeth glued to the bottom of the squid, fake, believe it or not, it's fake. Sorry to disapoint you.
Posted April 06, 2009
Lolwut wrote
in reply to EWAN
Just a quick note....Myth usually refers to something that is FAKE....or spoken of in old world rumors/stories/religions.....not justsomething that's fake and discovered on the spot without prior rumor or suspicion of it's existance.
Posted February 10, 2009
stephanie wrote
I dont know what it is caled but it is real I went to the Florida State Fair and it was there, I saw it on person, so its real!!]
Posted February 09, 2009
stephanie wrote
I dont know what it is caled but it is real I went to the Florida State Fair and it was there, I saw it on person, so its real!!]
Posted February 09, 2009
Antaeuskitty wrote
in reply to sam yeah im going to go with your theory...i suspect it is fake. my reasoning is that becuase it seems to be on a cutting block of sorts that it is mereley a fishermans prank to the world. For centuries sailors have been spotting rare creatures supposedly...but there has never been proof... my thoughts are that it is different parts of fish and squid placed upon one another. Heres why : the cutting block suggests dismemberment/fishing/and mutiple catches for prepared cooking. The eye in the center again suggests that it is a fish with a squids body placed over the nose of the fish...squid are gelatinous so i wouldnt be surprised how seemless it would look. The tail almost had me,however i beleive its just a perfectly planned and carved fish tail. No skin was broken on the body but the tail does look "tampered" with. I think it fake to say the least..most "undiscovered animals" do not possess qualities of "HYBRID" proportions without function and scientifically cant stand.
Posted December 12, 2008
Don't quote me now wrote
I believe that this is called a Chimaera. I read that they can grow up to five feet long and the tip of its nose is poisonous. They live thousands of feet down. Its just a big fish, albeit a very odd one.
Posted December 06, 2008
Don't quote me now wrote
I believe that this is called a Chimaera. I read that they can grow up to five feet long and the tip of its nose is poisonous. They live thousands of feet down. Its just a big fish, albeit a very odd one.
Posted December 06, 2008
smelly wrote
i think that it looks like a water horse, out of the movie that recently came out, but with an extremely deformed nose!!! could be the result of chemical pollution?!?!?!?!
Posted September 07, 2008
EWAN wrote
THAT IS A CERTAIN MYTHOLOGICAL CREATURE THEN ILL SUGGEST TO KEEP IT IN A MUSEUM THEN HAVE IT EXPERIMENTED TO LEARN MUCH OF IT.
Posted August 20, 2008
Jun Rey wrote
Can we cook that creature..!!
Posted July 11, 2008
jeffrey wrote
sure it looks like little loch ness
Posted April 26, 2008
tiffy wrote
this photo is real, but it's disgusting
Posted April 16, 2008
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