I really, really hope that in fact *is* an illusion.

Then again, if such a creature exists those choppers wouldn't just be for show and would probably have made headlines somewhere by now.

it's obviously fake, those teeth are clearly from a mammal, ask any zoo anatomist.

regards!

I'd say it was like a Fiji Mermaid sort of thing, but it's really well done. The shape of the head is almost canine, and the teeth definately look like they came from a dog. I very much doubt that's a fish of any sort (I've never seen any fish with teeth like that). I think it's a hoax.

The sale mentions it's been stuffed by a taxidermist (which raises the possibility of it being crypto-taxidermy) and that it is mummified. I don't know a lot about taxidermy, but do they mummify animals after stuffing them?


A very, very good hoax, but a PT Barnum-style sideshow attraction nonetheless in my opinion.

Great for scaring people on Hallowe'en, though.

Come on people.... You can tell it's a baboon (or similar ape) head taxidermied into a fish body. I think it's real and it's actually well done art.

Clearly its a HOAX those jaws and teeth came from a wild boar or a warthog or somethin. Just look at the structure of the head and compare it with a pic of a warthog or boar. Now you can tell a Difeerence.

Its Obvious! It's a fake! Why would any creature need jaws that big to feed such a miniscule body?

(If it looks like a duck, walks with a waddle and quacks - IT'S A DUCK!!!)

I like it. I would make a good pet :)

Isn't this called Crypto-taxidermy , where another animals bodies is used in combination.

pet?! ur nuts, er

To those who are bitching: Sheesh guys, This is why it is on an optical illusion site, duh!

It has to be fake. whoever made it didn't even do a good job. Just threw together something from different creatures.

I doubt the whole massive teeth but there are stranger deep ocean fish......

It doesn't even have gills so it couldn't possibly be a fish,the head is too big and the teeth are way too big and that top fin is a bone so it couldn't swim. So yeah I think it is one of those cryto-taxidermy things...

It has no gills.... maybe thats how it dies?!

a combination ofm fish and .. and .. and..

i don't know

Its a fake.... on the guys previous ebay records it shows that he bought a baboon skull... what a mystery that this shows up... plus he sold other wierd critters.... interesting though

twilight is right and every1 else should shut the ell up

haha, that fish does not make any anatomical sense. why would such a small fish need such a big head? funny tho :)

DUDES NO JOKE WHERE THAT GUY IS STANDING IS ON AN ISLAND SUM WHERE IN THE PACIFIC I WAS THERE AN I SAW SUMTHING SIMALAR IT SCARED THE SHIP OUT OF ME

If it was real, it wouldn't have died with its mouth open

There's my dog

i wish it was real, but it's a fake

i actualy saw this on ebay and did a little snooping myself. i found it is a monkey skull with teath he bought on ebay a few months prior and then he is some sort of taxidermist. i asked him why he told people it was real, he said it was cuz they knew it was a lie but that it was fun, more so than saying he made it

although this is a total fake, it is nicely done though. as to the fiji mermaid comment, that wasn't as obvious as this, they had to get scientist to come in and examine it. i know-- did a project on phineas barnum like 3 months ago. nice allusion though, that's what i thought of too. (oh and this is directed to alex) ~~lauren!

monkey head, monkey and some other kind of teeth,little fish body.
what an idiot

I agree that it's fake, but the point is, it's an ILLUSION website. It is pretty well done.

I have been lurking around here for a while now and I would like to say Nice site!

For this being a taxi. job, it is rather well done.

(I too wouldnt mind haveing the as a pet)

if it is real it must have been out of the water for an extended amount of time, or else its skin is really different than anything we have ever seen before, personally I'm surprised its not roting, real or not.

Holy.... I'm not sure how this was done, all the comments above seem plausible, but either way, it REALLY creeps me out. It kind of looks like a mutated monkey/ baboon/ pirana thingy

it is not real if it was mummified it's bones would show more

this is weird because on the beach shots it looks quite big but then in other pictures its shown with someones hand holding it and is a lot smaller

i think it looks like an evil scooby-doo

Man u can see someone shoved a baboon skull in it.. (the damn teeth wont even fit)
http://www.skullsite.co.uk/Chacma/chacma.htm
thats some crazy crypto taxidermy...
if we have jackalope, why not the babooncuda? (though its shorter than barracuda... makes up for those damn teeth) lol

gross...

the first two pics make is seem huge, but then he is holding it in his hand...

clearly a fake. fish dont have eyelids and in the botom pic. it has its eyes closed

i agree w/ mugen. i think the real illusion is why it looks so huge in the first to pix but so small in the next one. mind you...that's pretty easy to figure out.

this thing has to be a fake, if you saw that thing lying on the beach would you pick it up?

I think its kinda cute!