By Vurdlak on June 16, 2006, with 339 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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its teeth are not built for meat. its rear teeth look like their made for eating fibrosis plants. ie. A Baboon.Deep sea fish do not need to eat plants because sunlight doesn’t go down that far. The front teeth wouldn’t even be able to attack the side of its prey because they don’t open far enough.. I say its fake be cause this little fish wouldn’t be able to survive in the frozen depths of the sea.
lame. if its true…there should be flies if not on the ‘thing’…on the ground around it.
plastic don’t attract flies…booo
its faake
their right it is a baboon scull who do these people think their fooling you can cleatly see that the k-9 teeth are oveously a baboons and doesen’t even have any gills
It’s a baboon skull stitched together with a fish…
If it’s real though(I firmly believe it’s not), then it would be the first fish I’ve seen that has eyes in front of the head.
Notice every fish has eyes on the side…
This thing could be real but it looks to me like a fish with some teeth attached to it?
So this guy has a mouth and teeth to rival a Nile croc, but a stomach the size of a bass?
There’s a sucker born every minute.
Surely its a fake!! too much photoshoped!!
a deep sea mammal? the reason for no gills. but the weight of the jaw wouldn’t sink the fish. angler fish are almost all jaws. and there are fish that feed on plants and whatever falls into water. really, one of them is related to deadly piranhas. sharp pointy teeth aren’t always for meat. it could be just to impress a female.
it’s fake.. if it is real.. for sure there were hundreds of flies on the thing..
Geeeeezus that’s too funny. Just look at the size of those “Rhino Horns” popping outta that mouth. There’s no way that thing could survive with all that weight in its mouth. That’s just too much…lol. There isn’t ONE other creature in the ocean that has a head and jaws built like that. Their bones are all thin and light for proper balancing in the water. This gets a 6 outta 10 on the Crap-0-M3t3r.
totally fake, first of all no gills, second, by the structure of the body, i don´t see how it coud possibly swim at all. And finally, looks like it´s suffering from a bad case of rigo mortis, did it die while trying to eat something, or does the turd just swim around with its moouth wide open like that…
By the size of the mouth it looks like it feeds on, i don´t know, whales? but the body structure overall makes it look like it could just digest about a grapefruit? strange?
Fake. Looks like a creation of some artist hell bent on fooling people this thing is real. Freakingly creative ideas indeed…:)
This man taking a weird monster photo on beach and not a single crowd outthere….
guys ! It’s totally fack.
i think that those yucky photos were scary.
My humble opinion. It is a mutant fish. Some
nations are dumping a lot of barrels of radioactive garbage inside of the seas poisoning the waters of our planet and all kind of creatures without any consideration or
respect.
baboons are known to rape fish underwater :3
No. Photoshop.
A fish with cavities! Realy?
Ocean water contains fluoride so fish teeth are always clean never with cavities so this is a fake.
I will try to buy it from ebay then I will confirm if its real or not (if not real i want my money back) ;)
BABOON SKULL PUSHED INTO BODY OF A STONE FISH
COULDN’T OF GOT IT WITH OUT YOUR COMMENTS
DOES LOOK CONVINCING THO
of course it’s fake, why the hell dose it have such a huge mouth to feed such a small body? it’s stomach must be about the size of one of his eyes.
it looks like a pokemon for christ sake.
For one, it does not have gills or any visible means of respiration. Secondly, a marine animal would not have incisors or molars like that. It’s also just anatomically stupid for it to have a head that large for such a small body. It’s fake obviously. Glad most of you were not convinced.
If this thing its real,why it have that big mouth,its imposible,the nature doesnt do things like that without reason,This is fake,i can imagine this thing trying to hunt some for eat,and how swim this thing,really its a BAD FAKE! doesnt look even real,it looks like a monkey into a some big fish,but the exageration of the teeths it was AWFUL,BAD FAKE…
OMG MY EX WIFE!!
I agree that it is fake, but some of the argument give for this are off base… in the pics with it on the beach, yes it looks big but the is nothing close enough to it to give it scale. In fact, the gulls in the background are some distance away yet are still fairly large, indicating that the ‘creature’ is not much bigger.
Also as someone already pointed out, the angler fish also has a huge mouth and jaw but is quite real. In fact, I’d guess that whoever built this thing was inspired by the angler fish.
Also, not every deep marine creature has gills.
The molars do give it away though. What fish chews? And they look like mammal theeth, not fish teeth.
Isn’t that a dog fish?
Btw, other then the gill’s, everything that was said was stupid…
Bones are more dense… so the front would float up more then the back, meaning it doesn’t need a huge tail.
The tail is sticking up in the photo because the front is heavier.
It appears larger in the first photo because its a close-up, if you compare it to the birds in the back, everything is accurately scaled.
Mutant fish from toxic waste? Mutations don’t happen like this. (If they even live!)
Well, my opinion would be, it’s possible, but unlikely, but who knows? Lots of deep sea fish are freaky.
So FAKE- where is the BODY? only a big head with big teeth which eats food so where food goes?
This species has been examined in my facilities and it is definitely fake. 50 percent rubber and the rest is plastic with a coat of paint. IT IS FAKE
yours sincerely, DR S Penilron ( Head Of Ocean Research at The Ocean University, Fiji)
It doesn’t have gills the teeths are canine,the fangs will hold but will not transfer the flesh to the rear,it won’t be able to swallow what it will bite,so it will choke,no swimming fins no vissible legs ,no means of propulsion,this thing what ever it is has no reason to exist,like it’s creator.trex
Photoshop…;)
It’s a Fiji mermaid! =] Mixed media sculptures, each with its own backstory (i.e. being found on some beach). Everyone always gets really indignant when they find out it’s fake but I think it’s a cool (though grotesque) idea.
http://www.thefeejeemermaid.com/gallery1a.htm
FAKE !!!
my first reaction? yea it looks fake but there are strange fish out there that no one knows about. who knows? none of us are to judge if its fake or not. it might be but it might not be
it looks like it could possibly be an ancient decendant of the angler fish before the adaptation of the angler. ya never know. this kinda thing could be real. only way to find out is to put on a scuba outfit and see for urself
this is something that i have seen some creatures in fiction stories. this is a fake you can tell because of the skin,face and teeth
IT’S MADE FROM CARBON FIBRE AND PLASTIC. Man, the person who made that toy must’ve thought we were dumb. What a noob. Yeah thats right, NOOB.
Umm I would guess its a younge horse head with baboon teeth, I would say horse beacause baboon is slightly different shape, but it still could be a baboon. Further more totally impossible for that thing to swim… head would make it extreamly difficult and with its tiny fins…. plus no gills. Either way if it did exist (which it doesn’t) I wouldn’t be to worried about swimming near one, it would be massively slow.
maybe it some kind of demon,maybe the core of the earth is hell, and it somehow got out. maybe its a product radioactive waste and pollution and crap. maybe its a sick product of the government, we dont even know. the world is run by secret societies.
It’s a sculpture of a mutated angler fish or it’s a mutated angler fish.
It’s obviously fake but it’s a cool idea and it looks really weird and cool!
This is obviously photoshopped. Look in the background, you see a line of seagulls. But think for a second. If i were a seagull, would i be ANYWHERE near that thing. Let alone be calm enough to have several in a line. In the second the seagulls are gone, but on the dock there are several people, yet no one is scared or curious enough to lean over the edge. Nothing for the third but in the fourth you see a woman in the sand, nice pink shirt and hat, but any reasonable woman would fear of something like that and if not, fear getting something from it on their clothes. Case closed, Photobusters one, badly Photoshopped picture zero.
Obviously fake.
Everything about this fish is wrong. It’s a heterodont, which means it’s a synapsid, which means it’s not a fish, it’s a mammal at best.
Its heavily ossified bones means it can’t efficiently live in the deep sea, since it’s far too energy expedient to live on the low food availability, so it’s not a deep sea fish.
It’s missing an anal fin and pelvic fin, which means it’s not a fish.
It’s missing the pelvic fin means it’s also not even a tetrapod. It’s some sort of animal that only has two limbs…a bipod.
And don’t even get me started on the fleshy lips on a fish…that don’t even extend to cover the teeth! What is the point of that?
But,I like it because it’s cool and relates to the sea.I love seas,or any other body of water.And pools.
The hub says photoshop
Comically fake. The mouth alone gives it away. With teeth like that, it should have a *much* bigger stomach. Almost funny, but mostly silly.
This is truely fake so wats the point of taking up the internet space for that fake sea see monster.Thats the stuipd shit people dont look for JACKASS
This is the stuipd crap that just take up the great internet space
This is a fake sea monster and they used adobe to make it look real.PHOTOSHOP101
Hmmm it has molars. There isn’t a fish in the world that has molars, which means it’s photoshopped. It looks to be created by photoshopping a fish and the head of a Mandrill or Baboon together.
hey thats my pigfish!!! his name is puppa!!! thanks for finding my pet!!! oh wait !! is he dead??? nooooooooo puppaaaaaaaaaaaa
Thats very very old. It’s a sculpture by Juan Cabana: http://www.thefeejeemermaid.com/
oh and by the way to everyone mentioning photoshop – it is a real sculpture :)
..and David, if i were a seagull i would definitely near a fake monster :) looks cool
its fake 100%
semply ask ur self , how this fish with small body can swim with such big and heavy head ??
@ Dango
Further on to your comment, you should all think about why would such a small fish need such a big mouth? Where would the large pray go?
HAHAHA. I for one think it’s actually funny. To all those who can see that, nice one. This site is built for entertainment, you pricks. Anyone with an education knows that it can’t function as a fish. “person who knows what he’s talking about” couldn’t have said it better.
HAHAHA this time to all the people who feel smart and call it photoshop stating useless reasons. It isn’t, stupid. It’s a sculpture built over a fish skeleton with some mammal’s jaw fixed to it, and pretty well made, by the looks of it. “marios” seems on the right on this one.
Your stupid. Shutup. It’s fake, duh, it’s not a sea monster but it’s not because it’s photoshop, smartass and come on this is the shiz the internet thrives on.
Leading seraches: porn. This stuff isn’t half as bad as some of the shit I’ve seen. If you complain about this then you must be old.
It is not real. Some have noticed what make it fake. It is just a good plastic model from someones imagination.
prob is fake but angler fish have teeth twice there body and moths that dont close and small bodys as the first comment said.
if you look closely aswell its fine is there just torn off or missing
and in the statement it said Mummified so. they havnt fully discovered every fish or know what all use to lurk in the waters. if you take a look at some of the things that use to be alive you could question if they was really real and how they lived if so
YEAH IT IS TRUTH AND I BELIEVE IT IS POSSIBLY FAKE! NICE POST,
KEEP IT UP! IT WILL BE BETTER TO ADD G.W BUSH HEAD ON IT! HAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHA
That’s a pretty decent photoshop stunt but the baboon head gave it away ;)
http://www.dinofish.com/wmgallery/images/baboon%20jaws.jpg
Dude, seriously. It’s not photoshopped. Look up Juan Cabana, he does sculptures like this and sells them on eBay. None of his stuff is real.
I think its funny that folks immediately assume that it is the image that is fake and not the object in the image. Its a hoax.
I’ve been a professional prop builder for 20 years. Making something like that is relatively child’s play. It is an example of someone with just enough taxidermy knowledge to kludge together some fish parts onto a baboon or mandrill skull. Another “Fiji Mermaid”… and a poorly executed one at that.
If you’re interested in seeing cool taxidermy hoaxes, check out The Minnesota Rogue Taxidermists sometime.
Why do people assume everything fake is photoshopped? There are still folks that get up out of their chairs and actually work with their hands, you know :)
Anyway, scroll down to “Stranded” on this page.
http://www.thefeejeemermaid.com/gallery1a.htm
Lots of other creepy stuff there too.
Here’s your answer:
http://urbanlegends.about.com/od/fish/ss/freaky_fish.htm
LOL… It has saber tooth cat teeth!
Nice job putting a baboon jaw in some sort of angler fish. Looks awesome.
i don’t know what the heck is that !
but it’s seem like to be fake ..
great job from the designer though :p
I dunno, it could be true.. the ocean is fulled with weird ass fish like that one
Baahahaha I loved all the spacker’s shouting photoshop and giving lonnnng detailed explanations as to why it is so.
You lot fucking fail at life, pretending to know something about an art programme on an anonymous post on the interent. Fucking love it!
We used to fish in a small pond with lots of starving bluegill. They’d bite an empty hook if it hit the water, really sad. They had big heads but emaciated bodies, the proportions were identical to this except the goofy teeth.
Professionals who knew what they were talking about certainly believed the platypus sent to them from Australia was a hoax, made from several animals to fool them. Nope, it is a real animal. This could be too, except for the molar issue. Sabre teeth? Numerous fresh and saltwater fish have huge teeth similiar to those.
It looks like the fish from the Monty Python movie the Meaning of Life. ROFL…
I checked out the artist’s website. Wow, really horrific! I don’t know why anyone would buy stuff like that. Granted it is unusual but nothing appealing to look at! I love art but tend to think art should be more beautiful to look at, something uplifting to the soul. This is not.
THIS IS REAL
I know!!!
Ive fought them!!!
they are very dangerous and known as stingers or as I like to call them water keese
they are found mostly inside jabu jabu’s belly and can easily be disposed of with a kokiri sword, fairy slingshot or boomerang
props to anyone that understood that!
u guys rly need help…and to believer..tht wasent to hard to understand…im a freaking fanstasy game programmer…:P
This might not be photoshopped. It is however blatantly fake. Some taxidermist used some spare parts and had some fun i suppose. The jaw is obviously mammal, carnivore (bear), canine or feline. Sorry i’m no biologist for the mammal identification part hehe. But Photoshop is part of my job and this definitely doesn’t fit.
actually yeh it looks more like an omnivorous creature with a lil more observation. So i agree with the guy who said it is a baboon’s jaw
Reminds me of an old girl friend
TOTTTTALLLLY FAKE (Y)
Is an upside-down jaw of a wild pig
inside a fish skin, all fucked up together