| Cacique Caribe | 02 Dec 2009 8:11 p.m. PST |
YouTube link
YouTube link I don't know about you guys, but I think a local zoo's Antarctic exhibit somewhere is missing a Leopard Seal: picture
link Dan
PS. It makes for a cuter mermaid than would a Manatee. |
| Cacique Caribe | 02 Dec 2009 8:20 p.m. PST |
Not as exciting as this one though: picture Dan |
| 28mmMan | 02 Dec 2009 8:32 p.m. PST |
Great toy and a better monster picture , designed by my current favorite artist Mike Mignola link |
| Eli Arndt | 02 Dec 2009 9:08 p.m. PST |
Come on! How can anyone think that is anythign but a seal? I'm not a marine biologicst and I can tell a seal with a cleft flipper (damaged, deformed, etc). The head is obviously a seal or sea lion or some sort anf the body is too. -Eli |
| Top Gun Ace | 02 Dec 2009 9:14 p.m. PST |
If it's a Leopard Seal, the locals may want to be a bit careful, since they are carnivorous. Not the friendly, lovable type of seals most of us think of. |
| Cacique Caribe | 02 Dec 2009 9:30 p.m. PST |
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| Top Gun Ace | 02 Dec 2009 11:37 p.m. PST |
That sounds most likely. Then again, maybe it's a Pleisosaur…… ;-) Granted, not very likely, but one can hope. Before I get jumped on, I will remind everyone of the baby Coelocanthe footage just recently taken, and all of the adults taken over the years. They exist in the fossil record during the same overlapping time period. |
| Arrigo | 03 Dec 2009 2:30 a.m. PST |
to be a pleisosaur those tree and leaves have to be gigantic… Seal or sea lion without too many doubts… |
| The Tin Dictator | 03 Dec 2009 6:35 a.m. PST |
Enough of your ignorant opinions !
Its a SEA MONSTER !
And it will EAT you!
So BEWARE !!!! |
| nevals | 03 Dec 2009 6:51 a.m. PST |
According to my extensive research,it is a sea monster baby.Mama is ten times bigger . |
| sjpatejak | 03 Dec 2009 8:39 a.m. PST |
"Mama is ten times bigger." Yes, and if some fools capture the baby and put it in a circus, the mother will rise out of the sea and level Miami. YouTube link |
| JSchutt | 03 Dec 2009 9:53 a.m. PST |
Boat propellers have a bad habit of making Manatees less mermaid-like… and more monsteresque. |
| Top Gun Ace | 03 Dec 2009 9:58 a.m. PST |
Agreed, definitely a baby, being sent in close inshore to reconnoiter for the rest of the sea monster pod….. |
| The Tin Dictator | 03 Dec 2009 10:39 a.m. PST |
Yes, and if some fools capture the baby and put it in a circus, the mother will rise out of the sea and level Miami. So, there is an UP side to this story. |
| Coelacanth1938 | 03 Dec 2009 10:54 a.m. PST |
This is what a leopard seal looks like up close…
YouTube link |
| chironex | 03 Dec 2009 2:13 p.m. PST |
The only way that could NOT be a seal is if there is a species of manateethere, although the nose is too long and the tail the wrong shape so I'm saying seal. so heed the sign that says "BEWARE the beast of Pirates' Bay"! |
| chironex | 03 Dec 2009 2:14 p.m. PST |
CC: I don't get why that machine is called Leviathan, that name comes from Christian legend of the great fish daemon whose presence in the worlds oceans is a sign of the impending Apocalypse….. |
| Sundance | 03 Dec 2009 2:33 p.m. PST |
Didn't the original sighters claim it was like thirty feet long or something? That's clearly not thirty feet! |
| Top Gun Ace | 03 Dec 2009 5:28 p.m. PST |
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| Lentulus | 04 Dec 2009 7:46 a.m. PST |
"since they are carnivorous." I am not aware of any vegetarian seals, when you get down to it. |
| Top Gun Ace | 04 Dec 2009 10:02 a.m. PST |
True, but most don't appear to want to try to eat humans in the wild….. |
 Condotta  | 06 Dec 2009 1:19 p.m. PST |
One day Bob was bobbing on the waves of the bay, when without warning, a great Leopard Seal made him a meal faster than I could say "Bob's your uncle!" |
| Watchtower78 | 22 Dec 2009 1:39 p.m. PST |
It could also be evidence that the armored fish are returning and maybe even giant mososaurs. Everyone watch out when dunkleosteus and kronosaurus come out of the sea to eat you! picture
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| Cacique Caribe | 22 Dec 2009 1:57 p.m. PST |
Wow. Those Dunkleosteus looked weird, didn't they? picture
link Very alien. Dan |
| chironex | 22 Dec 2009 2:15 p.m. PST |
Watchtower those things are not coming out of the sea to eat you. Someone said that at the museum of tropical queensland once while looking at an icthyosaur skull (replicated), theorising that he wouldn't want it chasing him through the jungle. Until I pointed out a life size model of the whole creature.
And while kronosaurus looks a bit like a croc the lack of legs will give a comical situation like in Beached Az.
"You're beached az, bro!"
Assuming pliosaurs have Kiwi accents of course… |
| Smokey Roan | 22 Dec 2009 4:38 p.m. PST |
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| sharkbait | 22 Dec 2009 7:29 p.m. PST |
Manatee. I have a picture of one with a split/forked tail taken at the dam on the C54 canal near Sebastian, FL. picture |
