Disgusting Fish-like Creature! (video)

My GOD it's disgusting!

Never seen this one before, thank God!

What the hell is it?

No more information than what is present on the link.
It is supposed to exist somewhere in Russia...

Please give me some input.
Weak-minders: beware!

[Edit to fix spelling error, the animal was so freaky it made me lose focus]

[edit on 10-12-2008 by Raud]

it looks part fish, part horseshoe crab

weird

it looks like a triops to me, i had them in a fish tank when i was a kid, this one look alittle bigger then mine tho

triops page

It's a computer render with a blur added later, you just have to look at the wood texture and radiosity for that. Very well done, but unluckily a fake.

[edit]

Although I may have to bow to Kalomar superior post.

[edit on 10/12/2008 by spitefulgod]

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

Mmmm, stirs my appetite Here are some still photos of it and a blurb about some constuction workers who found one on the gallows.

www.englishrussia.com...

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 !

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.

its a triops, notice anything to give scale to it is missing


www.mytriops.com...

the same story with still from the video were posted and claimed to be a 5foot long prehistoric fish too, its a really old hoax

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...

yeah, i second that, thats what i thought too:

Google Video Link

[edit on 10-12-2008 by MCoG1980]

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]

www.fishforums.net...

This website says the largest ever recorded is 9 inches, which upon further watching of the video makes the recorded specimen seem not-so-oversized. I'm just not a fan of people on a website(that's supposed to be a junction of open-minded people) are so quick to say "I'm right. You're wrong." Unless one of us were there and have accurately recorded data, you can't really make that assumption.

Good thing that I'm guilty of what I just said. Ah, the internet.

reply to post by Raud

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I have checked a handful of websites and they all seem to agree that a normal Triops is two to four inches long. {example}


Judging by the video I would estimate the 'creature' is about four (maybe five) inches long. Triops seems to fit...



The caption under the video reads "... And people say it’s 3 feet long!"


Judging by the stick and the planks it's laying on, there's no way it is that big. Less than six inches... I'd put money on it. Still cool looking though.


You want to see something really cool and creepy? Check out this Alien-like Squid With "Elbows" recently filmed at a deep-water (mile and a half down) drilling site. Now that thing is scary!

Creepy looking, trying on Google found this older thread here:
www.abovetopsecret.com...
Not much to add here, except it's like that gar fish we had a few weeks back from Phucket, a species people don't see very often.

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]

Please put the warning in your first post!