Griffon Washes Up Onto Long Island Beach

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Is it real or just a legend? That's what many are asking after the corpse of a bizarre-looking creature with a dinosaur beak washed up on a Long Island shore this week.​

(Grainy photo at the link.)

Hoax, biological experiment, or mundane animal corpse distorted by drowning? You decide.

oh yeah, or it's a mythological creature. :rolleyes:
 
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It could be a hoax. I've only seen that one photo of it. If it's not a hoax, it's probably just a decomposed, bloated, mundane animal corpse.
 
Looks like a partially decomposed dog to me (i.e. the "beak" looks just like a dog's upper jaw with the snout and some teeth missing).
 
So where's the old man who carted it off? Does he still have the carcass in his freezer? Or was he in on a hoax?

It looks hairless to me, and maybe the front feet are hog tied?
 
How the F. does one include the phrase "A tipster told Gawker.com that..." on a webpage labeled news?!
 
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The hallmark of a fake:

Where's the body? Conveniently carried off by an unknown person. Right...... :rolleyes:
 
marksman said:
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Is it real or just a legend? That's what many are asking after the corpse of a bizarre-looking creature with a dinosaur beak washed up on a Long Island shore this week.​
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Feh. Looks more like a rhynchosaur beak to me.

Photoshop seems most likely to me, but aquatic carcasses do occasionally decompose in unfamiliar ways, prompting all sorts of spurious identification.


I am amused at the lack of basic knowledge of anatomy betrayed by some of the hypotheses so far put forth. Just how does anyone expect to have a turtle without a shell? A turtle's shell is its torso; it's not like it's some sort of beaked lizard sandwiched between two plates. The nutria is a little better; it helps explain the large incisors, but they're not really large enough, and there's no sign of the diastema or the orbit.

And I looked that up on google in five minutes. Really, you just type "google.com" into your URL bar, and then type in "turtle plastron" or "nutria skull" or whatever.
 
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Where's the rest of the photos of this thing? They claim that a lot of people saw it on the beach, didn't any of them have cameras? Did the person who photographed it only take the one shot? If I had a camera with me and came across the body of a curious beast unknown to science, I'd walk around it and get pictures from many different angles.
 
I thought it was a turtle without the shell. Looks like it has the beak for it.

ETA: Should have looked at Psiload's pics first. Yea, dog or a pig.
 
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Third Eye Open said:
I thought it was a turtle without the shell. Looks like it has the beak for it.

ETA: Should have looked at Psiload's pics first. Yea, dog or a pig.
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Anyone who thinks a turtle can just sorta crawl out of it's shell, should reconsider relying on Looney Tunes cartoons for their understanding of animal anatomy.

A turtle can't "pop out" of it's shell any more than you can "pop off" your toenails.
 
Psiload said:
A turtle can't "pop out" of it's shell any more than you can "pop off" your toenails.
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Toenails can be pulled off. A turtle without its shell is as structurally probable as a peanut butter and jelly sandwich without the bread and most of the peanut butter.
 
Ray Comfort and his friend has been asking for it!
Evolution has produced a Tortoise-Dog!!!

Now all we need is a Croco-duck...
 
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Toenails can be pulled off. A turtle without its shell is as structurally probable as a peanut butter and jelly sandwich without the bread and most of the peanut butter.
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Ummm...no. It would be equivalent to a human without it's rib cage.

"The upper shell of the turtle is called the carapace. The lower shell that encases the belly is called the plastron. The carapace and plastron are joined together on the turtle's sides by bony structures called bridges. The inner layer of a turtle's shell is made up of about 60 bones that includes portions of the backbone and the ribs, meaning the turtle cannot crawl out of its shell. In most turtles, the outer layer of the shell is covered by horny scales called scutes that are part of its outer skin, or epidermis."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turtle_shell
 
paximperium said:
Ummm...no. It would be equivalent to a human without it's rib cage.

"The upper shell of the turtle is called the carapace. The lower shell that encases the belly is called the plastron. The carapace and plastron are joined together on the turtle's sides by bony structures called bridges. The inner layer of a turtle's shell is made up of about 60 bones that includes portions of the backbone and the ribs, meaning the turtle cannot crawl out of its shell. In most turtles, the outer layer of the shell is covered by horny scales called scutes that are part of its outer skin, or epidermis."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turtle_shell
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Ribcage, spine, and sternum, actually, but I wanted a flashier simile. See above; I'm on top of this chelonian anatomy stuff.
 
neutrino_cannon said:
Ribcage, spine, and sternum, actually, but I wanted a flashier simile. See above; I'm on top of this chelonian anatomy stuff.
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Why don't you try...hmmm...ah hah:

"A turtle without its shell is like a PB&J sandwich without the PB&sandwich".

How does that sound?

Hmmm...chelonian soup just came to mind for some reason...
 
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