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.
(86 votes)
the scales are going in the wrong direction.
baboons head & a trigerfish combo very cool!
looks like the daily special trigerfish w/baboonhead alla beach special.
this thing is totally fake… it’s canines and teeth are not those of a marine animal. they belong to a predator that jumps on it prey’s back like a big cat or something and then. marine predators need razor sharp teeth not fangs. and certainly wont need grinding teeth. other than the fact that it need stiffer and bigger fins to support all the weight in the mouth…
No way that’s a fish.
i looked at this and i showed my dad and we decided that those idiots were holding it upside down!!!!!!its a old fish just not the monster they think it is. you see those black spots on its neck look like its eyes but are not!!!look at it upside down.so if there on its neck look upside down and see where its eyes really are…..okay!!!!!!!!!!!
Such big mouth —- such little stomach.
It’s a large mouth baboon bass, very rare only caught once in every century
Fake.
i also think it’s fake
but the teeth don’t say anything about whether it’s real or not. this fish could’ve developed from a race that went to land and then back into sea and still has this landanimal-like teeth!
i mean, it’s like saying a whale is not real because it has the the totally wrong breathing system for a fish ^^. get my point?
I did a google search on illiterate morons and it sent me here.
It’s that reall???????
Ohooooooo Fhooooooooo
It is fake only for one reason the mouth looks like it could easily eat a cow, but if you look at the body there is not enough of space in the stomach of that “thing” if it every took a mouthful of anything
its a bores skull and jaw bone upside down with move makeup and what not . just look at it with the top fangs as bottem tusks and tell me what u see , and besides what dose a fish need with molers?
I’M CALLING THE BULLS#!% CARD ON THIS ONE!!!! IT DOESN’T EVEN HAVE ANY GILLS!!!!!!!!!!!!!
something fishy going on here!
Just beacuse you havent seen one before doesnt make it unreal. SO all the people who say NO for sure, youre fucking retarded. theres tons of shit we havent discovered.
Hmm….missing link or bad photoshop?
makes me wonder;p
Canid/Mamalian teeth
Fish Skin stretched over a modified Canid (dog relative), or maybe even a Baboon, judging from the teeth. Molars and this type of dentition don’t happen in fishes.
The scales are all wrong. Scales’ roots are toward the head, and the flap (where u can get under and scrape them off) points toward the tail. this is opposite of what is seen here. This would create far too much drag on the animal as it slipped through the water, which would make them slower, and less successful
that is the fakest thing i have ever seen, its clearly a model, the teeth are wrong for a sea creature, its more dinosaur then anglerfish
How can fish have MOLARS, mr. smart-ass paleontologist? The fangs on this “FREAK” are made of bone, which fish NEVER produce. And fish don’t have MOLARS either. Not even dolphins or whales, which are aquatic mammals, have MOLARS.
Imagine Kermit the frog, with teeth.. LOL. Even PLESIOSAURS are not this bizaare. Its DEFINITELY A FAKE. Judging by the teeth alone, I can tell that this “thing” is atleast 7 years old, a carnivore, a male, and is in a good state of health. The skull and the EYE SOCKETS are TOTALLY A DEAD GIVE-AWAY. This is a LAND MAMMAL, not a fish, not even an aquatic mammal. My best guess is its a baboon or orangutan.
This FREAK is made of a mammal (baboon) skull, sewn inside a grouper-fish skin.
Pal, next time you make a fake FREAK, create something less obviously a dud.
ders no flies flying around it haha FAKE!
Pasturelands comment refers.
Fish do produce bone – but their teeth sure don’t look like that. They don’t have dentine, and they are definitely not differentiated that way. Ha, one can clearly see the profile of that skull under the skin, and it’s a baboon’s skull. Trust me, living in South Africa I’ve seen enough baboons to know…
As for frightening – there’s so much weight up front with those huge, HEAVY teeth, that the thing wouldn’t be able to swim straight. It’s not scary, it’s pathetic…
LMFAO
This is so obviously a Photoshop job
*thumbs down*
THAT IS SO LAME!!!!NO FLIES ARE AROUND IT!!!
ITS A DORK FISH!!! I caught one with a corndog once
It’s not real, it’s not photoshop, I believe it’s not even made out of real creature “parts” according to the sculptors website. It’s “art” someone did; he’s also made hundreds more lifelike creatures, mainly merfolk.
Do your research.
funny how it doesn’t have gills… besides, its probably made of something like a dog or cow skull and slightly modified yet they kept the teeth structure of a mammal.
i think it has a baboon head
It’s a taxidermist artist’s sculpture. They’ve been around for a while.
It’s a bit hilarious this, apart from the molars and canines that are exclusive to land mammals – just look at the disproportionate size of the mouth versus it’s putative stomach – half a bite would fill it up.
To Pasturelands:
Even though this fish is a fake, Fish do have molars, well at least one species does. Its called a sheepshead fish we catch them in The Gulf of Mexico in Corpus Christi Texas. Look it up
It is not real if you notice it is bigger in the first pics then small enough to fit in your hand and who would hold it seriously? It looks like a baboon skull with the work of a sculpter. Dont believe every thing you see online….PLEASE!!!!
@david:
the black guys around here have not so big teeth
I THINK IS REAL BUT IT SHORELY LOOKS LIKE A HUMAN BEING.
The skull comes from a baboon or something similar.
it’s real…i caught one before
Lol fake…
Hmmm…
Is it King Kong’s cousin?
1. Yes, it’s fake.
2. Not all beaches have flies. But even if this beach did, they wouldn’t buzz around a taxidermied creation. There’s nothing to attract them.
3. Yes, it’s a composite creation. Believe it or not, though, there is a deep sea creature that looks a lot like it, WITHOUT the teeth, which as someone pointed out, is extremely unlikely in any sea creature. There are some fish that have what appear to be fangs, but they’re composed of a very different material than mammalian teeth.
LOL it looks pretty real i mean it look like … a fish mixed with a donkey on steroids loololololololol i thought sumthin looked funny about this fish 0.o
The beach that this photo (background anyway) was taken on is on Tampa Bay. Since Tampa Bay is about 30 feet deep, don’t expect too many “Creatures of the Deep” to be washing up.
It looks fake
democratsare…
You’re thinking of an angler fish. Democrats are communists, silly…republicans are fascists :P
Definitely a baboon skull.
No Gills?
Baboon head and a fish sculpted together.
Hmmm . . . i dont think so that its real.. may be i can be real but there no prove for that .
Well I for one think “THINK” it is a fake but there are a lot of ting that we don’t know about out little blue planet Giant Squid where once thought of as not beeing real and low and behold they are
There are a lot of fish like creatures that lurk in the deapest parts of the oceans alot that we we haven’t seen before
This is a weird world that we live in and are still learning.
So TRY to keep an open mind.
Maybe that is what the person was trying to get at
Any way keep the picture coming I love them
Ron
Hamilton Ont Canada! eH!
It’s very fake. That’s a Baboon skull. http://www.skullsite.co.uk/Chacma/chacma_ant.jpg
Interesting critter but obviously made up from skull of sabre-tooth tiger or local wild boar plus skin of a grouper. BUT you do get molar teeth in sea critters. I have a sample of claws from a mangrove crab I caught on the Red Sea coast while working in North Yemen in 1977. The CLAWS have a full dentition – at least canines, premolars, and molars. And it looks like they’ve been moulded from a mammal. Not so, it’s parallel evolution n action. By the way I do know my teeth, I’m a veterinarian qualified 1972 in London.
Jenny Haniver
This is a monkey skull in a fish skin, even a blind person could see it.
pastureland,lol.Just lol.
Fish have bones mr.”I want to prove someone wrong even if theyre right and im not”
lol.And,carvivorous fish have teeth,lol.Look at sharks XD
Might I add,its a babbon’s skull mixed with a common tuna I think.
You may be able to trick a child who’s never seen a baboon before…
Um. This picture was taken in Tampa, Fl. Not such an exotic destination now is it
Wow ,,,
I can’t belive that…
however creature alike that is living in somewhere …..
I don’t care if it is made up or shooped or whatever. It’s brilliant. The stuff of dreams. Excellent. More, please.
Phoney! No flies. No decomposition. Too opaque for ultra-deep ocean existence.
You are kidding me,right??Definitely this is a Photoshop job.blend in baboon n fish together.result = UGLY ASS FISH!!!!
Can we concentrate on anything other than trying to figure out what is FAKE what is NOT FAKE? Its sad how the majority always is cocky trying to figure out a scientific explanation…so tell me, have you seen god? does he exists? and if your answer to these questions is yes or no……is he fake or not? Id like to see someone answer that because it CANNOT be answered if you do, your just a FAKE yourself.
Hehe Rafael, good point.
I honestly don’t know what to make of this.
There’s this one-eyed kitten, that resembles a monkey, born not too long ago, about 30km from my house.
And it’s alive and real.
If this fish is real, it’s probably a genetic defect brought about by our bad habits of throwing stuff in the sea.
Think about it, evolutionists say land animals originated from the sea, and no-one’s questioning that.
*correction
the line:
And it’s alive and real
should read
At it (was) alive and real.
Sorry.
That’s horrifying!!
if it would have 1 eye more, it could be the fish out of the “The Simpsons” lake near their nuclear thing ;)
The last few people posting above this are more freakish then this so called fish.
i caught one before with my dick as bait…
its fake probably…. if discovery people can fing blue whales and all weird things in sea, howcome they cant find these sort of strange animals….hah… its fake !
either way, this photo is cool fake or not.
That’s only a photoshop monster created by a freaked mind.
Hey, that’s indeed the exact same theeth which a baboon has :D
I agree with david clearly a baboon skull and as someone else said it has no gills XD
It seems extremly large on sand, seems as it would bite a thick wood log and chop it at first attempt, later they hold it by its tail n surprisingly it shrinks( i will expect it 2 seem even bigger when they hold it for a close view.)
Fiji mermaid!!
It’s not a baboon skull – it’s all fake.
that thing is gross….whatever it may be
its modeled from a baboon but no skull in there.kl
Even if it didn’t so transparently resemble a baboon, there’s no way that a real fish would have such a massive block of bone for a skull – it would weigh the front down and make level swimming impossible.
The scull and the jaw is of a horse, and the sharp teeth is a fake. No fish has got molars in their jaw bone. And to claim this fish lives in deep sea, its bluff, it would burst wen it is pulled up to the shore, because of the pressure it is accustomed to. The scales and the fin are just some cheap work. This is crap dude,,,
Umm there aren’t any gills O.o and if u notice its tail isent touching the ground in the first pic and in the way its positioned it would be.
its fake.