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Mystery prehistoric sea creature which looks like a crocodile and dolphin washes up on lake
www.mirror.co.uk ^ | Updated 14:27, 16 Feb 2016 | By Ruth Halkon

Posted on 02/16/2016 7:53:04 AM PST by Red Badger

Speculation: The mystery sea creature with razor sharp teeth has been confusing people =============================================================================================================

The image has divided social media with some claiming it is a large hairtail, a long, slender fish found in tropical seas, while others suggest it has been photoshopped

With the body of a legless crocodile and the head of a dolphin, this strange sea creature looks more like something out of medieval myth than a real animal.

It was photographed after washing ashore on the banks of Lake Macquarie in New South Wales in Australia.

Ethan Tipper snapped an image of the creature before posting it online to see if anyone could identify it.

The creature has a long, slender body with scales and a tail like a crocodile with no legs, a head shaped like a dolphin's and a mouth full of razor sharp teeth.

The image has divided social media with some claiming it is a large hairtail, a long, slender fish found in tropical seas, while others suggest it has been photoshopped.

But Australian Museum fish collector Mark McGrouther told Daily Mail Australia he suspects it is a pike eel, native to deep waters on the east coast of Australia.

Read more: Bizarre "alien of the deep" goblin shark with fleshy snout and nail-like teeth found off Australian coast

He said: "This is the first time I have ever seen one of them in the flesh.

I suspect it was caught and discarded by fisherman who got more than they bargained for when they tried to reel it in."

(Excerpt) Read more at mirror.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Australia/New Zealand; News/Current Events; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: australia; cryptobiology; ethantipper; godsgravesglyphs; helixmakemineadouble; horseeel; horseeels; lakemacquarie; lochness; lochnessmonster; markmcgrouther; newsouthwales; pikeeel; scotland; scotlandyet
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1 posted on 02/16/2016 7:53:04 AM PST by Red Badger
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To: Red Badger

Looks like a crocagator - the fiercest animal in the jungle!


2 posted on 02/16/2016 7:55:23 AM PST by FroggyTheGremlim (Hunga Tonga-Hunga.)
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To: Red Badger

A crockaphin? Or a Dolphagator? It’s Aussie-land - it’s expected, normal.


3 posted on 02/16/2016 7:57:08 AM PST by SkyDancer ("Nobody Said I Was Perfect But Yet Here I Am")
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To: Red Badger

They focused way in close to make the fish look bigger against the boats in the background.


4 posted on 02/16/2016 7:57:22 AM PST by Lazamataz (I'm an Islamophobe??? Well, good. When it comes to Islam, there's plenty to Phobe about.)
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To: Red Badger

Nessy!


5 posted on 02/16/2016 8:00:14 AM PST by dhs12345
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To: Red Badger; CounterCounterCulture
A closer look:


6 posted on 02/16/2016 8:00:39 AM PST by Charles Henrickson (Social and constitutional conservative)
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To: Lazamataz

7 posted on 02/16/2016 8:01:03 AM PST by Travis T. OJustice (I miss my dad.)
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To: Red Badger

Looks like a couple of crocs got together and had their way with a dolphin.


8 posted on 02/16/2016 8:02:47 AM PST by going hot (Happiness is a Momma Deuce)
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To: SkyDancer
A crockaphin? Or a Dolphagator?

Paging the SyFy Channel...


9 posted on 02/16/2016 8:02:56 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: eCSMaster

Oh I see a Si-Fi made for TV movie!

Crocagator vs The Sumatran Vampire Rat!


10 posted on 02/16/2016 8:02:59 AM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: Red Badger

It looks like it’s a dead.


11 posted on 02/16/2016 8:03:39 AM PST by deweyfrank
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To: Red Badger

Deformed gator.


12 posted on 02/16/2016 8:04:23 AM PST by A CA Guy (Are God Bless America, God Bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
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To: Red Badger
Australia

Figures ...

13 posted on 02/16/2016 8:06:12 AM PST by NorthMountain ("The time has come", the Walrus said, "to talk of many things")
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"How do ya cook it?"

14 posted on 02/16/2016 8:07:02 AM PST by JRios1968 (I'm guttery and trashy, with a hint of lemon. - Laz)
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To: Red Badger

It’s Trump!! /s


15 posted on 02/16/2016 8:07:56 AM PST by Fresh Wind (Falcon 105)
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To: Red Badger

Looks like what attacked Jacqueline Bissett in “The Deep”


16 posted on 02/16/2016 8:08:51 AM PST by minnesota_bound
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To: deweyfrank

A dead what?.......................


17 posted on 02/16/2016 8:09:36 AM PST by Red Badger (READ MY LIPS: NO MORE BUSHES!...............)
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To: eCSMaster
Looks like a crocagator - the fiercest animal in the jungle!

Care to explain why?

No, I guess not. Hee hee!

18 posted on 02/16/2016 8:09:58 AM PST by Fresh Wind (Falcon 105)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

Trumpengator?


19 posted on 02/16/2016 8:11:24 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: Red Badger

Sounds like one of the creature’s in Rick Wakeman’s “Journey to the Center of the Earth”


20 posted on 02/16/2016 8:13:19 AM PST by navet97
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