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

[PIF]

“The largehead hairtail (also beltfish), Trichiurus lepturus, is a member of the cutlassfish family, Trichiuridae. It is a long, slender fish found throughout the tropical and temperate oceans of the world. The Atlantic, East Pacific and Northwest Pacific populations are also known as Atlantic cutlassfish, Pacific cutlassfish and Japanese cutlassfish, respectively.

“Largehead hairtails can grow to 2.34 m (7.7 ft) in length, although most only are 1 m (3.3 ft). The largest recorded weight is 5 kg (11 lb) and the oldest recorded age is 15 years. They prefer coastal regions and sometimes enter estuaries. They are found at depths of 0 to 589 m (0 to 1,932 ft) with most records between 100 and 350 m (330 and 1,150 ft).”

[JimSEA]

It’s a ringer for Pike Eels pictured on Google but larger. Nasty looking critter!

[deweyfrank]

Justa deada.

[bgill]

Is that guy on the left picking lice?

[Ol' Sox]

Looks like an alligator gar to me. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alligator_gar

[Red Badger]

That’s a North American freshwater fish, we have around here....................

[SandRat]

It may get even more weird when they have completed the Necropsy on the thing.

[Ol' Sox]

I know. Wonder what it’s doing in Australia?

[Red Badger]

Trying to escape higher taxes or Globull Warming, er, Climate Change..................

[Red Badger]

I don’t see a pillow on its head...................

[PLMerite]

Some random dead sea creature after the dangly bits have fallen off.

This yummy looking thing is the remains of a basking shark:

[usurper]

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

ow I remember that album I should order it again.

[tophat9000]

you know that I think chicks use that for boob shots on plenty of fish.com... and I’m sure you guys do for other photos

[JimRed]

Saltwater croc with the legs chewed off?

Is that lake connected to the sea via a bay and river?

[JimRed]

Even in the “before” that is a darned big Yellow Perch!

[Marko413]

When animals die and decay, they often change so much that it’s difficult to realize what they used to be. I’m guessing it is either a known fish or a gator that has it’s limbs folded underneath.

[Roccus]

Five days out to sea, they witnessed a terrifying battle between two sea monsters. One having the snout of a porpoise, the head of a lizard, and teeth of a crocodile - an Ichthyosaurus. And the other, the mortal enemy of the first, a serpent with a turtle's shell, the Plesiosaurus.

[Red Badger]

a basking shark?

He needed more sunscreen........................

[Red Badger]

No ‘gators in Australia, deformed or otherwise................

[Red Badger]