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The Strangest Supposed "Fish" Yet?

Posted November 24, 2013 3:41 PM

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I'm sure that several years ago a bunch of out of work "oceanographers" like the people here got board and started faking various "fish" that only they ever saw in the wild and only they ever photographed and that lived in the "deep" ocean where nobody could verify their existence. I assume this was a funny joke that got out of hand and now they're stuck with having to come up with a new "fish" every so often to keep up the ruse. Here's the latest, a fish with a see-through head:

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11/25/2013 3:24 AM

Why is this called a 'supposed "fish"'? What else might it be?

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11/25/2013 2:56 PM

Looks kind of fishy to me.

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11/25/2013 3:04 PM

That's the "latest"? Then why is the story several years old (February 2009)? See http://www.mbari.org/news/news_releases/2009/barreleye/barreleye.html. I'm sure I've seen much newer releases than that - and so far, I don't see evidence that they're fakes or someone's response to being bored [not "board": Pinocchio might have been board, but the rest of us shouldn't be!]

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11/25/2013 5:52 PM

The ghost fish....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zoygy-8PTtU

Flathead catfish....

????

Yikes, that's definitely an alien.....

Watch out for those tentacles....!

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11/25/2013 8:07 PM

Just remember, they can't put anything on the internet that isn't true.

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