By Vurdlak on June 16, 2006, with 336 Comments
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.
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!!!)
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!!!!
Blatant fake. Totally wrong teeth for a sea creature. Not even close.
What the heck? that r be creepy!:(
I certainly hope this was only intended as a joke, because, that’s the stupidest shit I’ve seen in a while,
having taken a class on mammals and their skeleton and skull structures, i can pretty confidently say that that skull (based on the teeth) is a baboon skull or one of its close relatives
it’s just like the fiji mermaid that is an amalgamation of a fish and a monkey. this looks like it might be a donkey head judging by the large, horselike teeth and somewhat closely spaced eyes. someone just dried and shrank it, stuck some sharp teeth and bones on it, and then grafted fish skin on and sewed a tail on it.
WTF? Okay… that better be fake or I’m never gonna take a dip in the sea..
It’s a baboon skull fitted into a fish’s body…
Really bad photoshop skills
That’s definitely a fake! Those teeth are in now way what you would have found in prehistoric fish. I’ll tell you what, though. Let’s pretend for a moment that it actually *was* real–Clearly, we can see why it became extinct!
it most definitely is a baboon skull. nothing would be able to evolve to be like that.
Holy crap, this thing can chew a steel pole ! ! !
thats rly scary, im jus glad its not real
wow. that is scary. i have never even heard of such a thing…
That is definitely a fake. Firstly: it’s the skull of a baboon, we have plenty in my country and then some, so I know what I’m talkin about. Secondly: if you fall around google a bit with baboon skull in fish or some such search, you find it on a debunking site which indicates that the man who “found” it on the beach has tried in the past to sell fake taxidermy “proof of monsters”.Thirdly, the teeth are a dead giveaway, fish teeth, even the really scary ones have a finer more transluscent quality to it and they will weigh very little in order not to bog the fish down or sink it. That jaw and those teeth would most certainly cause such a fish with comparitevely small body to swim with it’s nose in the sand – if it’s gonna swimm at all. And to top it off, not that I don’t say it’s not there or put in, but I can’t seem to find the gills.Mmm, the sandbreathing baboonfish.
gosh, not well-done at all! really looks like a donkey’s skull or something like that… and what about its scales?! they´re in the wrong way! hahaha, totally fake, pal, sorry…
hmm…i wonder how long this person’s been using photoshop..
haw can u decive people by this trick
this is realy descusting
It is simply amaizing …
Fake but not photoshopped…
In many beaches in south america and usa one can find artists doing scary sculptures ou of fish and other animals parts.
Once I saw a mermaid that scaried the s**t out of me !
It is a baboon skull, and of course its a fake.. If it has a human skull like, I dont think it would breath that easy underwater…specially if they claim to come from way underwater. and where the man is grabbing it,,,it seems so soft. normally a fish is stiff when dead. I believe they cut of the fish’s head and stuck a baboon inside.
his proportions are wrong theres a head and a small tail he wouldnt even be able to swim
those big teeth are fake altough the skull might not be
never could be a living creature
with all that weight in the mouth he would just swim down
Obviously this is a hoax. How so?
Well, if you take a close look at the first two pictures displayed vertically, then you may be able to infer how this “thing” is bigger than it is in the last two pictures; the one in which the person is holding it upside down.
Aaaaaah! Whatever it is it’s just fake
Fake or I will never EVER swim in the beach!
LMAO WHO EVER THOUGHT THIS PHOTOSHOPPED IS THICK AS SHIT YOU CAN TELL ITS NOT EDITED LOL
YOU CAN CLEARLY TELL SOMEONE MADE IT
that is crazy . I never show anything like that. CRAZY. Looks like it some what had eyes like humans. Nose and than the back of it is shaped like a fish. Teeth like what you see of dogs. There is things under sea that eyes have never seen and ears have never heard. That I do believe. Some we will never see. It amaze me things that we have seen underwater.
That is very crazy. I think that it unreal it so CRAZY. I just can not believe that this is real. FAKE
Hahahaha thats disgusting. Fake or real that thing is the ugliest shit ever xD
Sorry, but it’s the brilliant work of gaff artist Juan Cabana, who’s out of Tampa, FL. I’ve several of his pieces in my personal collection as well as some at my Palace of Wonders museum – http://www.palaceofwonders.com – in Washington, DC.
MMMMmmmmmmm They taste like Chicken!