it looks part fish, part horseshoe crab

weird

Looks like.
A baby shark to me.
A rare type of shark.
Kind of like a stingray.

its a triops

case closed

That video is bringing down some weird stuff when its buffering. 2 MB in 25 seconds plus a listing for the following : specific click, double click and some Russian stuff leads me to a full virus scan...get this off , its unsafe !

Originally posted by captiva
That video is bringing down some weird stuff when its buffering. 2 MB in 25 seconds plus a listing for the following : specific click, double click and some Russian stuff leads me to a full virus scan...get this off , its unsafe !

Ooops! Sorry for that! I had no idea.
I am using FireFox though. Haven't noticed anything. Besides I am at work so it is not my problem!

But seriously, I am sorry for any damage I might have caused...

Thanks for the warning.

Originally posted by warrenb
it looks part fish, part horseshoe crab

weird

I agree, I was about to say the same thing.

Has it been captured? Looks pretty easy to nab and test. Otherwise I'm not sure if I believe this story, the grainy video certainly looks like it's showing a real creature but you never know...

I posted something similar to this a few months ago and everyone was quick to assume that it's "just a triops" and that it was no big deal, but disregarded the fact that the first and now this second specimen are easily much larger than any triops recorded before. The head-to-tail ratio is much different as most triops species as well and unless the stick used in the OP video is a toothpick, the creature on the video is at least a foot long, which is much longer than any previously recorded triops.

This means it's either a new subspecies or mutation caused by something in the local environment. It's definitely nothing outrageous or groundbreaking, but to dismiss it as insignificant or a forgery is a little over the top, don't you think?

Originally posted by Sacreligion
I posted something similar to this a few months ago and everyone was quick to assume that it's "just a triops" and that it was no big deal, but disregarded the fact that the first and now this second specimen are easily much larger than any triops recorded before. The head-to-tail ratio is much different as most triops species as well and unless the stick used in the OP video is a toothpick, the creature on the video is at least a foot long, which is much longer than any previously recorded triops.

This means it's either a new subspecies or mutation caused by something in the local environment. It's definitely nothing outrageous or groundbreaking, but to dismiss it as insignificant or a forgery is a little over the top, don't you think?

Those were my thoughts as well. It looks far larger than a triops. Looked for videos and pitcures of them, none are near that size.

[edit on 11-12-2008 by rapinbatsisaltherage]

So have we concluded it's a triops? Edit: Apparently not.

I'm pretty sure we could have gotten the gist of the creature's behavior without having poked it with a stick repeatedly. I'm just sayin'...

[edit on 11/12/08 by paperplanes]

Originally posted by Raud

Originally posted by captiva
That video is bringing down some weird stuff when its buffering. 2 MB in 25 seconds plus a listing for the following : specific click, double click and some Russian stuff leads me to a full virus scan...get this off , its unsafe !

Ooops! Sorry for that! I had no idea.
I am using FireFox though. Haven't noticed anything. Besides I am at work so it is not my problem!

But seriously, I am sorry for any damage I might have caused...

Thanks for the warning.

Please put the warning in your first post!