Posted on 10/14/2014 12:42:46 PM PDT by Brother Cracker
Singapore, - A Singapore fisherman is trying to identify an unusual sea creature he reeled in with up to 100 tentacle-like appendages.
Ong Han Boon, 54, said he caught the strange creature while fishing for lunch recently on the island of Sentosa and he was "completely flummoxed" by the animal he found on the other end of his line.
"I've had quite a few odd things from come out of the ocean but I have never seen anything like this before in my life. It had all these arms waving around," Boon told The Mirror.
He said the creature had up to 100 tentacle-like appendages and "looked like an alien or some kind of mutant."
Boon said he is hoping online experts will help him identify the sea beast.
"I've asked all my friends and none of them know and all my internet searches have not turned up anything that looks like this," he said. "So, if no one can't identify it then I guess I'm right -- it's either an alien or I've discovered a new species of mutant sea creature. That would not surprise me with all the pollution they put in the water nowadays."
Cthulhu
Looks like a mutant octopus. An X-topus?
I'd guess coral gone awry.
Wasserman Schulz’s hair extensions.
Pretty sure that is describing the IRS.
The article doesn’t say if the creature is still or was ever alive while in his custody. If alive, he can see what it does to feed itself. It looks like some form of plant life to me. Think of the Venus Fly Trap, which gives direct reaction to it’s environment. At first glance, one is not sure if they should kill it and cook it or throw it back into the sea, and allow Neptune to reclaim one of his servants.
A type of starfish.
Probably some sort of coral.
I wonder if the ‘fisherman’ had the humane sense to toss that back in the drink since it could well be a ‘one of’.
Pretty sure that is describing the IRS.
ROTFL!
Some kinda Starfish?
Five-fold radial symmetry.
Some kind of sea star.
in other news - Debbie Wasserman Schultz is now bald, following high winds while attending a fundraiser at the wharf.
Euryalina, a Basket Star.
Click on youtube above
Two questions: How did Wasserman Schultz’s hair get there and is it breeding? Because if it’s breeding there is a stupid epidemic on it’s way!
Basket star or similar?
http://marinelife.about.com/od/watchingandphotography/ig/Sea-Star-Images/Photo-of-a-Basket-Star.htm
Just looked at the Youtube. This has got to be some sort of squid. Maybe it’s an example of ‘Co-Joined Squid’. as sometimes happens to people ie. Siamese Twins. It is more ugly than it is mysterious. Calamari, anybody?
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