http://www.wlbz2.com/news/watercooler/article.aspx?storyid=84089
At first I thought it might be a snakehead, an invasive species that’s know for wiping out the local fish. But it’s not. The article says it might be a lake trout.
It’s a fox with mange.
I guess with some species, ugliness has an evolutionary advantage.
(Yeah, I know, eye of the beholder, blah blah blah.)
No-no-no. THIS is the eye of the Beholder.
How is it the “biologists” say it’s not a new species, yet they can’t identify it. How do they know?
If I make break a lance for the fish, it surely looks hideously ugly, but I bet it have more charms before being dead on the pond for who knows how long, dragged out of the water, chewed up by some very, very desperately hungry animal and run over by cars.
That would make a dent in anyone.
The news lady on the vid ends by saying it’s safe to say the restocking won’t include aquarium fish or that needle-toothed thing. Yeah, sure, doll! That stuff always happens.
Over the fall and winter, Indianapolis drained their downtown canal, removed all the fish to the White River, and scraped out all the muck and algae. They had no plans to put back any fish. On the very first day of the refilling, an old man and his granddaughter were spotted dumping goldfish into the clean canal. :smack:
Utah Jesus fish – the rapture is nigh!
He lost his wallet?
Also, I’d eat it.
Because the chances are exceedingly remote that a species new to science would be found in a pond in an urban park. That immediate area has been surveyed by biologists for over 100 years. It’s not really feasible that a truly unknown species would be discovered there.
It is far far more likely that it is a local known species that is difficult to identify because the specimen is in bad shape, or because it is an exotic species that someone dumped in the pond.
It’s likely a dessicated walleye.
THIS is the ultimate eye of the beholder. Voted sea creature most likely to get picked last for kickball every time.
No, that is the Nose Wart of the beholder. Or a member of the scholl fencing team, I dunno.
The skull of the cutthroat trout features a suspiciously similar snaggle-toothed appearance. It’s the state fish of Utah, though; so I presume that state wildlife biologists would be able to identify one even if it had been run over several times.
Well, that still looks less weird than heliocoprion. Ugly, but less weird.
WTF?! That’s the strangest fish I’ve ever seen bar none.
Looking at that picture I half expect to see it whooping and wolf-whistling at a pack of girl sharks.
Paleological sharks are fascinating.
And when I say “fascinating” I mean “their fossils have caused headaches, heartaches, and nervous prostration in certain members of the paleologist community.”
Of course, the paleo-sharks are less confusing than paleo-worms… 
Looks like it has dental coverage in Great Britain.