I for one hope this is just an illusion, or I wont be taking a dip in the sea so soon. However, original owner claims this is a real sea monster that was dumped by the sea on a near-bye beach. Discovery Channel also claimed that unbelievable sea creatures live in deep-sea, and that we aren’t aware of their existance. Probably this one is a representative… but I doubt it. Decide for yourself, but before you do, jump inside this article for more pictures, and then jump to eBay for more info on this bid.
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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.
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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!!!)
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!
All animals have teeth which best suit their natural environment and the food that they eat. If this was a deep sea creature then it would not need big teeth like that as they deep sea creatures mainly survive on smaller prey etc. However if it was not a deep sea creature then it would be already known and not unusual, so imo it has to be fake!
I’m almost certain this is a fake.
I read about a guy called Juan Cabana who makes things like these for a living, out of dead animals skulls, teeth, etc. and it reminded me of some work he had done.
But it would be nice to think that this was real, because its pretty interesting. But if it was real, I am NEVER going swimming again…
oBVIOUSLY A FAKE. in the first 2 pictures, the fish looks huge, because all of the beach litter is small. when the guy picks it up, it becomes tiny, about the size of a large catfish. also, the shadows in the first and second pictures were very different, so unless the guy who took the pictures took a picture at noon, sat until around 5:00 pm, then took the second picture, it’s fake.
Really bad digital chop job. There are alignment errors in every shot where images were "cut & pasted" and "magic wanded" together. Something stinks here, and it's not the fish! Did you know Adobe Photoshop has a free tutorial on how to professionally render digital images? I bet you a monkey fish you didn't!
The skull is from a primate, a baboon http://www.holtanatomical.com/bilder_hq/zos53_3.jpg
The molar teeth are a dead giveaway along with those canines.
The fish has to be a bottom feeding ambush predator to have eye slits up on the top of its body, like an angler fish where the normally wide moth has been stretched forward over the skull, though with that dorsal spine it may be related to the stone fish family.
That thing looks NASTY.
I caught a net full of these off the coast of Morecambe, Lancashire ….. just near Heysham nuclear power station!
The elusive Mermonkey! I’m glad they finally caught that thing.
i think it’s true. it’s one of the fishes that lives in the deep sea. i’ve seen one like this in the encyclopedia.
Why is it that in the first pictures the creature looks HUGE, like enourmous and taking up a good portion of the beach and then in the next pictures that follow you can see that a person is holding it up? Clearly this is an illusion.
That’s clearly a fake. Take a look at any picture of a yawning baboon and you’ll see the same teeth and face. Fish don’t have molars, for a start.
wow now THAT is creepy!! it probably made out of clay, plastic, rubber, or anything fake becouse that is SO not real… is it!!!!