Posted on 08/18/2009 4:22:28 PM PDT by smokingfrog
Sightings of strange creatures abound. The images included in this article are thought by some to be some form of Pacu or Snapper. According to experts, Pacu are a South American fresh-water fish that have been sold in North American fish stores. They grow too large too quickly, soon outgrowing their tanks to be released surreptitiously by their owners in lakes, streams and rivers. Snappers are marine fish, found typically in the world's oceans and seas, but their teeth are generally sharp and their fins farther back along the spinal region.
There are many images of Pacu and Snappers online. Pacu are skinny and tall, dark with pugnacious mouths and can reach lengths of over 3 feet. They are known for the resemblance of their teeth to humans. They're generally pleasing asthetically, hence their original appeal to suburban pet stores. Snappers are leaner and meaner, with a sharp set of teeth and are tenacious predators to smaller fish and marine animals. But the images of these fish barely resemble the specimen found washed up on the Corpus Christi coastline on August 16th, 2009. Although bitten in half, this fillet was easily 8-10 inches long with 3 rows of teeth and serrated fin spines that bear little resemblance to its more portly and traditional southern Pacu cousins or its similarly predatory Snapper kinfolk. Complete, it would have been a sizeable morsel for a shark or whatever creature ended its days.
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The strange appearance of this fish in the gulf of Mexico make it an anomaly and perhaps linked to global warming and oceans and seas in transition, as fish typically found in tropical waters find themselves in waters inhabit by other species themselves in transition, as is the ocean and world around them.
(Excerpt) Read more at examiner.com ...
I would think such equipment would put a fish at a decided disadvantage.
Looks like Hillary to me.
the darwinists are gonna either love or hate this.
Pacu are skinny and tall, dark with pugnacious mouths and can reach lengths of over 3 feet.
look at that halo. doesn’t it make you all tingly?
Immigration of asians is more likely the culprit.
They had the same problem in Merlin, SilvieWaldorfMD, remembers.
Pacu’s aren’t all skinny and tall. There are many species of fish with this feature.
LOL
This would be good if they could be used for dentures.
Okay, who forgot their dentures at the coast?
Very fake. But pretty funny.
LOL. Those pacos always make me feel tingly.
Mr. Limpet declined to comment.
Don’t show that to Clinton. He’s always looking for his next Monica.
If they are growing in a fish, and haven’t been implanted by some mad dentist, then they are not human teeth, they are human-like teeth. Precision, please, journalists.
Naaah. Too easy.
This looks like a Sheepshead.
http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/fish/gallery/descript/sheepshead/sheepshead.html
The one on the left looks like uncle Jake in Arkansas.
Bobby Bare I think sung about this in the last verse of this song:
When I was a lad in a fishing town
Me old man said to me:
“You can spend your life, your jolly life
Just sailing on the sea.
You can search the world for pretty girls
Til your eyes are weak and dim,
But don’t go searching for a mermaid, son
If you don’t know how to swim”
‘Cause her hair was green as seaweed
Her skin was blue and pale
Her face it was a work of art,
I loved that girl with all my heart
But I only liked the upper part
I did not like the tail
I signed onto a sailing ship
My very first day at sea
I seen the Mermaid in the waves,
Reaching out to me
“Come live with me in the sea said she,
Down on the ocean floor
And I’ll show you a million wonderous things
You’ve never seen before
So over I jumped and she pulled me down,
Down to her seaweed bed
On a pillow made of a tortoise-shell
She placed beneath my head
She fed me shrimp and caviar
Upon a silver dish
From her head to her waist it was just my taste
But the rest of her was a fish
‘Cause ...
But then one day, she swam away
So I sang to the clams and the whales
“Oh, how I miss her seaweed hair
And the silver shine of her scales
But then her sister, she swam by
And set my heart awhirl
Cause her upper part was an ugly fish
But her bottom part was a girl
Yes her hair was green as seaweed
Her skin was blue and pale
Her legs they are a work of art,
I loved that girl with all my heart
And I don’t give a damn about the upper part
And that’s how I end my tail.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnOzfiIKoCI&feature=PlayList&p=6B3193C2CD0626CF&index=0&playnext=1
Definitely looks fishy. Should be flagged to the White House.
Ah, yes. But what are the benefits?
What is a Darwinist?
I think they resemble chimpanzee teeth...
what? no uppers?
must be kin to a sheepshead.http://paleo.cc/paluxy/tooth3.jpg
I remember.......Snakefish
LOL!!!!
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