Cue the X-Files
This strange critter washed ashore on the eastern end of Manhattan’s Long Island and it has the upper Hampton’s crowd in a tizzy.
The big question is…”What is it?” Dubbed the Montauk Monster, it looks a lot like a dead, bloated, hairless dog, but the creature sports a dinosaur-type face, with an eagle-like beak, prominent brow ridge and an elongated front paw.
At first many thought it was either a shell-less sea turtle washed ashore, or at most, a prank or some kind of viral stunt. Some even speculated a photoshop creation or science experiment gone afoul, however, all these proved false. What has even led to a greater mystery is the abrupt disappearance of the thing.
Where is Mulder and Scully when you need them?
[Gawker Media Photo: shows dead monster on shore of the Hamptons]
It’s another Government Conspiricy! We’re secretly doing genetic experiements! Look closly at the picture boys and girls. Its a baby rat that someone photoshoped in the beak. If you look closely you can see the individual grains of sand… to which you would be able to if you were to zoom in on a baby rat and take a picture. The rear end of it is a dead giveaway. WHAT-EVER
I don’t think it’s a rat a Rat Terrier maybe or a Pitbull more likely. I do wonder why nothing has been eating it though.
The alien from Roswell finally escaped! He/she/it came to tell us, Soylent Green is people!
In field geology classes, they taught us always to include an object of known size in a photograph. This provides scale for measuring other items in the photo. As Geologists, we’d usually use a rock hammer. A scale object is notably missing from this image.
Note that the “beak” appears to have teeth.
I’ll have to join the “photoshop stunt” camp on this image.
Randall
This made our local news this morning as a fluff piece. The general attitude was, “It looks weird, but we don’t think it’s real.”
Since the thing has gone missing, I think it will get added to the Big Foot and Nessie camp.
Fox News had an animal expert on today and he says it is probably real, however, it is likely a dog. Definitely a carnivore land dweller and that beak-like look is actually all the animal’s upper teeth exposed with the skin eroded away due to decomposition of the body.
Looks like J J Abrams is starting early with Cloverfield 2.
Tim
Better photos here:
http://www.newsday.com/news/columnists/ny-lijoy0801-pg,0,1306184.photogallery
Looks like a dead dog to me.
Oh boy, I can’t wait for National Geo to make me waste an hour on a five minute topic!
Thanks for the better shot I had not seen that one. Pit bull defiantly.
Looks like a creature from Siglers Nocturnal. Are we sure Scott isn’t messing with our heads again?
those other photos look like a dead pig in 3,4, and 5