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Neville
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
Spain
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 Posted - 02/08/2007 : 06:32:54 AM
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A sad ending for Cthulhu.
Village residents from the Rostov region of Russia caught a weird creature two weeks ago after a strong storm in the Sea of Azov. The shark-looking creature was producing strange squeaky sounds. The fishermen originally believed that they had caught an alien and decided to film the monster with the help of a cell phone camera. The footage clearly shows the creatures’ head, body and long tail. The bizarre catch was weighing almost 100 kilograms, the Komsomolskaya Pravda reports.
However, ufologists and scientists were greatly disappointed when they found out that the fishermen had eaten the monster. They said that they were not scared of the creature so they decided to use it as food. One of the men said that it was the most delicious dish he had ever eaten.
Click here to see the video of the alien sea monster
Chairman of the Anomalous Phenomena Service, Andrei Gorodovoi, stated that the creature, which he could see on the short video, was an anomalous being. However, it could hardly be described as an extraterrestrial form of life, he added. Gorodovoi rejected the version about mermaids too. “There are many legends about mermaids living in the Sea of Azov. Nevertheless, specialists of the Service for Anomalous Phenomena have never confirmed those fairytales. On the other hand, we do not deny the possibility of other forms of life in the Sea of Azov,” the ufologist sad.
A spokesman for the Rostov-based zoo, Alexander Lipkovich, contacted local ichthyologists and asked their opinion about the Azov alien. “They said that the fish bears resemblance to a sturgeon. It was an extremely interesting individual. I have never seen anything like this before in my whole life,” the specialist said.
See video here: http://www.fark.ru/media/video/prikols6/i1645
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nshumate
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
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nshumate
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
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Posted - 02/08/2007 : 07:32:49 AM
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| Duplicate post because I'm stoopid. |
Edited by - nshumate on 02/08/2007 07:34:15 AM |
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twitterpate
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
Canada
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Posted - 02/08/2007 : 4:16:56 PM
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Hmm, I'm sure Nathan is correct. I think I've seen a dried one in an article on hoaxes, and the "face" was pretty well identical.
Mmmm, fresh skate for dinner on the Sea of Azov! |
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The Rev. D.D.
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
USA
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Posted - 02/09/2007 : 1:04:17 PM
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I'm not sure about it being a stingray. Stingrays have whiplike tails, without any fins or other protrusions (outside the stinger, naturally). Ditto skates, who don't even have a stinger. It also appears to have a robust skeletal/cartilaginous system under the skin, whereas skates and rays are flat and generally formless.
My guess would be some sort of deepwater shark. If it weren't for the size I'd say it was a ratfish or chimera, but I don't think they get anywhere that big. As I've found out recently, though, there are a lot of shark species I'm unaware of, so I probably couldn't name it.
Related to that....I assume you all saw the video of that frilled shark off the coast of Japan? I love deepwater animals...they're so unearthly, and they always make my neck hairs stand up.
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Altair IV
Preeminent Apostolic Prelate of the Discipleship of Jabootu
Japan
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Posted - 02/09/2007 : 5:53:17 PM
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According to the one of the comments on YouTube, it's actually a Guitarfish, a kind of ray-like shark (or shark-like ray).
Here's one page with photos I found (though probably not the exact same species): [url="http://www.mexfish.com/fish/snguitar/snguitar.htm"]Guitarfish[/url] |
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The Rev. D.D.
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
USA
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Posted - 02/10/2007 : 07:39:05 AM
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I do believe that YouTuber is right, by Cthulhu.
I was trying to remember the various fish that were passed off as mermaids and "sea monks" and what not, and I knew some of them were skates and rays (sometimes combined with monkey parts) and some kind of shark was also used, but I could not for the life of me remember the name of the critter. The guitarfish was it. I had been thinking monkfish, but they're not it at all since they're not a shark.
Woulda been neat if it HAD been one of Cthulhu's star spawn, though...neat in that "OH @#%@ WE'RE ALL DOOMED" kind of way.
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