Posted on 04/06/2008 8:34:40 AM PDT by BGHater
A fanged creature found in Utah after some ice melted on a pond has stumped biologists trying to determine what it is.
Officials said the pond may have been poisoned or the water may have run out of oxygen due to the thick ice.
While checking the pond, the creature was spotted.
"When we first saw that fish, we thought what in the ….. is that thing?" Utah Divison of Wildlife Resources Ben Boyce said.
The fish was found with carp and goldfish that had been stocked in the pond.
Biologists said they are not sure what the creature is and that it could be a type of trout whose tissue decomposed rapidly, making its teeth more prominent.
Aquatic biologists said if they can't figure it out, they'll let the fish decompose fully and then examine the bone structure to determine the species.
Watch Local 6 News for more on this story.
Snakehead? Trout? Muskie?
Looks like a Gar - plentiful down here in Louisiana - a bottom-feeding trash fish. Ours have longer snouts.
That is one fugly SOB. Sure wouldn’t want to be swimming around by him!
It looks like Clint Howard's and Donna Shalala's love baby.
That is one ugly fish. Girl, do you have any ideas?
This could be us under Hillary-care! BEWARE!
Don't tell my mother. She 'invented' garfish balls, (made of fork flaked garfish meat) because she would not throw away anything she had caught. Not too bad.
Kristina Vanden Heuval. Oh wait, her teeth look worst.
It’s obviously the famous Flattened Pirahna. How did it get to Utah? I’ll bet it doesn’t even have a green card.
Crockafish?
There seems to be absence of fins. It looks more amphibian than fishlike to me.
Not a Trout or a Muskie. Not a Gar. Don’t know about snake heads. Looks like some freak of nature. Somebodies experiment?
12 replies and not one picture of Helen Thomas... slow posting day.
We’re waiting....
“Looks like a Gar - plentiful down here in Louisiana - a bottom-feeding trash fish. Ours have longer snouts.”
Garfish have longer snouts.
Damn! Beat me by 1:21.
Flattened moray eel. Death by fresh water.
The typical high-school kids skipping school to go swimming in the local pond ... NEVER TO RETURN ... story.
Check again, there are several decomposed pictures of Helen Thomas with her mouth open.
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