Alien invasion or viral blitz? (creature washes up on Long Island)

Daily Telegraph ^ | 7-30-08 | unattributed

[Teacher317]

WOW! A Dark Crystal reference!

(I like the Garthym)

[Teacher317]

[devolve]

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G-W is good for quick cropping - but .gifs must be under about 240K

It’s a funny .gif

[potlatch]

I’ll have to show you the original, each frame has different delays giving a more comic effect.

[pcottraux]

ping

*Ahem.*

[BigDaddyTX]

Al (Manbearpig) Gore as a youngster.

[Bringbackthedraft]

Not sure about the skeleton? It has a beak and I don’t know of any 4 legged animals that do. I guess we can blame it on the Very secretive and mysterious Plum Island. An escaped experiment maybe? ;o) LOL

[SunkenCiv]

Tortoise, or not tortoise, that is the question.

Dead Monster Washes Ashore in Montauk
GAWKER | Tue Jul 29 2008
Posted on 07/30/2008 9:39:30 AM PDT by Sopater
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2053750/posts

Montauk Monster: Property of the USDA?
Associated content.com | July 30th, 2008 | By Carol Bengle Gilbert,
Posted on 07/30/2008 10:50:00 AM PDT by Perdogg
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2053785/posts

[dragonblustar]

I’ve posted the group on two of the same related article.

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[dynachrome]

Sorry, different headlines don’t come up on search. Funny threads, anyway!

[WorkingClassFilth]

It ain’t no turtle. Turtles don’t have any skeletal support without their shells and they’d be nothing but raw meat and guts outside their shells - butcher a snapping turtle sometime and see what I mean.

I vote for the dog or pig hypothesis. This critter has lost part of it’s snout and the septum is visible - not a beak. Beaks are two-part arrangements with a lower cutting surface to match the upper. This critter has a jaw with teeth - the upper teeth are under the remaining flesh.

[DeLaine]

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[dragonblustar]

I’ve taken you off the list.
: )

[A knight without armor]

And giving us the finger to boot.

[brytlea]

I was out of town when this story popped up on the news and I couldn’t WAIT to get home to see what Freepers had to say!
susie

[brytlea]

I kind of thought that, but on TV they pointed out that it had teeth. I’m thinking turtles don’t have teeth, but maybe some sort does.
susie

[brytlea]

Is that bottom one from Cloverfield?

[brytlea]

Actually, it looks like a gryphon. If there were such a thing that is.
susie

[brytlea]

Wow, that’s a great theory! One thing I always notice is that the photos are never great. If I found something like that I would photograph it in different positions and from different angles to show all of the anatomy. No one ever does, which makes me very suspicious.
susie