http://z.about.com/d/urbanlegends/1/0/u/A/what_is_it_sm.jpg Scaryness. <u>WTF!!??</u> Who thought this up?
Check this out, this is real, got it from a swedish newspaper: http://www.aftonbladet.se/vss/nyheter/stor...,998164,00.html It says some russian fishers hauled this thing up and was scared the heck out of it. Apparently it rolled it's eyes and moaned in a human-like way. One of the fishers caught it on his cell cam: Invalid Video Link
WTH @ The first one..looks like a giant hairless screwed up dog...creepy. As for the 2nd one...gross. What is growing underwater..there's new weird things found underwater every month.
<div class="quote_poster">M Two One Wrote</div><div class="quote_post">Who thought this up?</div> Patricia Piccinini and I think she's awesome! Look for more information here, if you're interested.
After reading that Wiki article Sasha posted, I can see the wisdom of it, but man, that creeps the hell out of me, too. I mean, think about what humans could do if endowed with some animal traits. Humans live in a world dominated by sight, color, and thought. We don't really depend on our senses of smell or hearing at all, compared to most other animals. What if we could improve those attributes, or at least become more keenly aware of them? What other things could we learn about the world around us? Creatures with far less natural skills have survived alongside us for years and years, and we've often wondered what the world is like through their eyes - this could give us a glimpse. One thought that I immediately had, considering my interests, was this: we've always wondered what triggers a bear's winter quasi-hybernation. We know that bears are like humans in many anecdotal and even a few physical ways. Think how many new things we could learn if there was a manbear...pig Then again, the thought of engineering humans to have animal traits gives me the shivers LOL. I don't know how you'd go about acheiving those goals, and I'm not sure I want to know. As far as I know, it's impossible to cross-breed humans with any other animal. Ok, end of rationally thinking about doing this. I don't wanna mess with humans and animals like that Bahir - do you have an English version of that newspaper story? I'd like to know if any further studies were done on...whatever that is. My gut is telling me it's some sort of hoax - 1) this is the first I've heard of that thing, and it's on a Youtube vid 2) It doesn't appear to be any animal I've seen before 3) It appears that they killed it, and unless there's a live specimen of something, I've learned to be extremely skeptical of it. That said, I'm a very supersticious person who likes to let the 'ol imagination do its thing, so I'd love to know more about it. Thanks in advance if there's anything else on the subject.
Reminds me of that episode of Batman Beyond, with the "splicers." Seriously though, that vid Bahir posted just freaked me out. I have no idea what that thing was supposed to be, but it just looked unnatural.
Animal/human hybrids remind me of I think it was called Dark Angel with Jessica Alba. She had that friend who was like half lion head/man head. I don't like the thought of something being half-human. I wouldn't know how to treat it, I have a different standard for treating humans/animals.
<div class="quote_poster">Schaddy Wrote</div><div class="quote_post"> Bahir - do you have an English version of that newspaper story? I'd like to know if any further studies were done on...whatever that is. My gut is telling me it's some sort of hoax - 1) this is the first I've heard of that thing, and it's on a Youtube vid 2) It doesn't appear to be any animal I've seen before 3) It appears that they killed it, and unless there's a live specimen of something, I've learned to be extremely skeptical of it. That said, I'm a very supersticious person who likes to let the 'ol imagination do its thing, so I'd love to know more about it. Thanks in advance if there's anything else on the subject.</div> Googled it and found this: http://www.thatpoliticalblog.com/serendipi...ht-in-Azov.html There are some links on that site that might prove interesting too.
I hate the ocean. God only knows what else is down there. That fish thing freaked me out, and I dont get freaked out easily at all.
By the way: could it be an upsidedown guitarfish? (It seems to have the same shape) The second image shows the same eyes/mouth arrangement. This image shows very similar wings/tail. http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/fish/Gallery/Desc...anticGFish.html Another Russian creature http://www.underwatertimes.com/news.php?ar..._id=69431071285
Except when a guitar fish is upside down the side with the face on it is completely flat. This thing was roundish and it looked like the face was on top of its body.
