A Prehistoric Fish in the Russian Pond
Look what they have found in Chelyabinsk city. The story is that there was a construction site with a deep foundation ditch. They have touched some underground river in that place so the water in the ditch didn’t get away so it stayed there full of water. Then some workers a few months later spotted some movement in this water, they threw some pieces of their lunch in the trench which caused a big activity inside. They were puzzled who is there? And caught one thing up then in big panic stepped away cause it tried to bite them so they had to kill it with some equipment and here are the remains of it. It was around 5 feet length. Nobody of them got any idea of what’s that:
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Oh my God…FACEHUGGER!
Where is Ripley when you need her.
this thing.. HAS SEX WITH YOUR FACE
Exactly what I thought!
http://digg.com/environment/Alien_in_Real_Life
–Kyle
You guys are idiots. It’s a triop, zoomed up close. The pictures are fake.
he must have a good camera if he could get such a detailed picture up close cuz mine cant…:(
I think you will find its an evolved horseshoe crab, the distinctive features are the legs on the close up shots, horseshoes crabs can grow up to 1m in length which is about right for the look of the one in the video (see part 2)
No, google triops. It’s not even related to horseshoe crabs, as far as I know. Check wikipedia. And it’d be pretty amazing if it was a meter long.
Its a Triop, google it.
That`s not fake. That`s even not a fish, `cause it`s a simple NOTOSTRACA (in Russian - Щитень). U could copy this name and put it to Google and look NOTOSTRACA`S pictures.
It is in the order Notostraca, commonly called a tadpole shrimp or fairy shrimp, it is a group of freshwater crustaceans that are found globally.
I did a survey of aquatic invertebrates in Mongolia last year (not too far from Russia) and found a lot of these guys in pools. Very cool to look at and find, yes, but rare and 5 ft. in length? Not quite.
So, looking at these ridiculous photos and realizing with great sadness that once again the someone on the internet is trying to lie in order to “look cool.” I had never heard of this “pre-historic fish” before so I went on an adventure to find out all that I could. My results were this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Triops_longicaudatus_3.jpg
Nothing more than a tadpole shrimp, albeit rather large, it is still a tadpole fish. Even from the picture you can tell that this creature is CLEARLY NOT 5 feet long. It’d be lucky to be five inches long let alone five feet. Ha!
Actually it looks like an Isopod but I’ve never seen one with a tail.
Horseshoe crab.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horseshoe_crab
You’re damn clever!
It’s not a horseshoe crab, it looks totally different not to mention more legs
You’re right, I’ll go along with the Triops hypothesis then.
yes, much like a triops sort. i’ve seen them before, just not so large. definitely withthe three eyes and that tail and segments. not as much as horseshoecrab but definietely something close to triop. they love to eat shrimp and eachother and meat in general.
Who says it must be prehistoric? It’s probably some kind of species yet unknown to man, but related to horseshoe crabs. Mind you, not all species on the face of earth are known to science.
Thank you for this
enlightening
perspective on the situation.
Well, which law of nature states that paleontologists are always right?
Besides, Crocodiles are considered to be pre-historic animals too… I have very little trouble with the possibility that this is what it looks like, even though it can easily be a hoax.
your right it’s a trilobyte
A horseshoe crab is considered a living fossil.
no kidding, every fuckin insect on the planet is a direct descendant of these things.
I agree with Bert. It is a horseshoe crab. They are common all up and down the east coast of America. They are bottom feeders and generally are not harmful to man. Sometimes they wash up on the shore after a heavy storm. Some cultures in the Orient actually eat horseshoe crabs and use the large shells in their arts and crafts to sell to tourists.
Horseshoe crabs that I know of (growing up on the Jersey shore) have barbs for tails and not some fleshy thing like that. Please no one here say “Its a horseshoe crab” YOU do not KNOW so understand that a person can come along and believe you in your infinite knowledge and you will be aiding in stupefying the world. How about try…I’m NOT and expert, still live with my mother, and have never actually seen a horseshoe crab but in my opinion its a horseshoe crab.
Gary, IT IS A HORSESHOE CRAB, dipshit !
Have you guy’s bothered to google ‘triops’? Better yet, look at mytriops.com
I’m doing a degree in Marine Biology - it is an close up picture of a Triop [A small Branchipod in the species Notostraca - along with crabs, shrimp, lobsters etc.]. They grow to a max of an inch or so, and live between 6-11 weeks. They have been around for the last 70 million years and have not changed very much since. They are similar to Sea Monkeys [Brine Shrimp - Artemia salina] in the way that there eggs hatch from are laid in sand. There eggs remain metabolically inactive (total stasis (standstill) for several years in a dry oxygen-free condition, and can even withstand temperatures below freezing and upto 80 degrees centigrade). Triops hatch in rain water (ammonia and nitrate free water - e.g. bottled water). They can be bought online or purchased in stores e.g. at http://www.amazon.co.uk/Interplay-UK-Wild-Science-Triop/dp/B00008OS3U. Here is an image of an adolescent triop, showing comparison to grains of sand - http://www.fischbar.de/triops/triops_1.jpg.
Just to add - this news story is a hoax and a half. It is not a fish, and is from the Cretacious period and is fact helping to control mosquito populations by consuming mosquito larvae.
Yeah, it’s crap.
thats not a horseshoe crabs, i live around a area where they have a bunch of horse shoe crabs, horse shoe crab tails are stiff and are not wiggly like that, that is some next shit
That’s not a horseshoe crab. It looks a little like one though.
Horseshoe crabs that I know of (growing up on the Jersey shore) have barbs for tails and not some fleshy thing like that. Please no one here say “Its a horseshoe crab” YOU do not KNOW so understand that a person can come along and believe you in your infinite knowledge and you will be aiding in stupefying the world. How about try…I’m NOT and expert, still live with my mother, and have never actually seen a horseshoe crab but in my opinion its a horseshoe crab.
Hi folks, its a Triops - a freshwater shrimp.
It’s only about 5cm long. So the story is a hoax.
See my web site http://mytriops.com/ for more on this remarkable animal. People can raise them as pets.
Stuart Halliday mate,
looks asthough you’ve been to the location and caught a sample for yourself.
This is pure political, (reading the replies) you cant leave Russian people alone to be proud of finding a new species not seen before, you must automatically compare to usa and downgrade the finding to nothing more then a joke.
shame on you all!!!!!
photoshop
It’s not a photoshop, it’s a “tadpole shrimp”. It’s not even close to a foot long, though, much less five feet…and it’s definitely not a fish.
Does not look like a photoshop, but damn, that things freaky.
that’s a triops and it’s probably not that big. Look:
http://mytriops.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triops
The funny thing about them is that their eggs can be completely dried and come back to life when put back in water. You can even buy a box of them online:
http://www.amazon.de/Kosmos-631819-Triops-City/dp/B0001ZWG7E
‘cept this triops you linked to grows to a maximum of 2″ in length, not 5′
ok. which means I’m gullible. yes, those pics are definitely of something tiny. they could have taken the sheen off the curve of water due to surface tension before posting.
Looking at the few points of reference, this creature does not look like it is 5′. Its obviously not 2″ either. I’d say a little bigger than 1 foot, maybe 1.5.
Look at the height of the water in the pictures, surface tension will only carry water so high. If this thing is an inch long, that’s stretching it.
this is a super triops http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triops
We all know it’s a facehugger so stop it with your bigus wiki references!
sorry for posting ;-)but perhaps we can drop some Sweet chilli sauce on it
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pfeilschwanzkrebse
It is foolish of us to think that we have discovered all the creatures that inhabit this earth.
Incidentally, when I was in Russia this summer I saw a tv program “Neveroyatno no Fact” (unbelievable but fact), it featured eyewitnessed encounts, stories and evidence about dragon-like creatures found in the forest north of Moscow or maybe Kursk. I tried to find some information on the net, to scare my girlfriend, but have failed miserably. Does anyone has any more information on this creature?
I want you Boris
That program is mostly bullshit. My father watches it all the time. It’s like national enquirer on steroids.
It’s like bigfoot, or tons of other urban legend creatures.
bigfoot is real.
bfro.net
Come on, Boris Abramov!
That “Neveroyatno no Fact” is one of the silliest TV shows I have ever seen!
Crossbreed of X-Files and Twilight Zone, served as true stories.
Ridiculous.
Especially that ultra-serious, dooming female narrator voice behind the scene is making me laugh. (Mainly because she talks too long. Then the intended effect of sending shrills down your spine disappears and she begins to sound foolish, like a caricature of herself.)
While on other side, this TV show obviously does have its intended audience with appropriate intellectual abilities and state of mind. Mostly overlaping with the same people who believe in modern Nazi regimes in Baltic states and other “true” stories of various kinds served by Russian media to their brainfucked audiences.
You, Boris, should really have an initeresting life - dragons in forests near Moscow, Nazis in Baltic states, what else..?
P.S. Actually regular Russian TV news reports are normally produced using the same approach - fiction + serious faces.
Oh, here we go again.. Do you really want to start all this crap all over again?
Frankly, if you deny that Baltic States have a problem with nationalism, racism, xenophobia etc, you are ether the perpetrator of these crimes or a yet another poor soul who has fallen victim of your government’s atrocious neo-Nazi propaganda. In which case my condolences to your parents.
Secondly, I have never stated that I believ this “documentary”. Of course it’s a complete fake. What I am saying however, is that there is no chance that science has uncovered all land spices, the statement that a vast majority of scientists and biologists support.
“Do you really want to start all this crap all over again?” - Oh, normally it is you who starts it all over. Sorry for taking away from you the opportunity to shout “FIRST!” on it this time.
Your fascination with “dragons in Russian forests” reminded me of your fascination with “Nazis in Baltic states”.
Your here-we-go-again blah-blah re. “government’s atrocious neo-Nazi propaganda” just illustrates the point.
Poor Boris and your parents. :)) Maybe they just should have listened when they were told about the safe sex …
Yes, of course it is all a myth, Baltic States a centers of tolerance and love…..
http://photofile.ru/users/stopnazi/2444938/44601200/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BdT9UR7QL8U
http://www.fsumonitor.com/stories/012104Estonia.shtml
http://www.yousaytoo.com/user/Ganza/4010
http://www.developmentandtransition.net/index.cfm?module=ActiveWeb&page=WebPage&DocumentID=586
Do you want more? If not, stop bullshiting.
The same old crap.
Assorted pictures, misinterpreted events, and mostly - paranoid stories written by likes of yourself.
And that old article of poor old Socialist James Hughes, which has been unveiled to be half-lies in another issue of the same newsletter.
You disappoint me.
P.S.
I do not know about love, but Baltic states certainly are very tolerant. Even more so than some countries of the “Old” Europe. Why? Because people here are rather different in cultures and views and so shall find a way to peacefully coexist. Which we have done with great success, even despite tries by some pro-Moscow extremists like you to destabilize the situation.
No success so far, my dear hatred monger! So please keep on trying!
Yes we have already discussed the Hughes/Muiznieks articles. As I recall Mr. Muiznieks deliberately misquoted Hughes in several instances. However, Mr. Muizniek did admit that there are ethnic problems in the Baltic countries.
Heh.
1)
Maybe I am wrong, but as much as I recall you might be recalling Boris Abramov saying that Muiznieks misquoted Hughes. Please correct me if I am wrong. Basically, as I remember, Hughes article was, let me put it this way - biased wishful thinking, to say the least.
2)
And, I guess, everyone knows that there are ethnic problems in Baltic states, especially in Latvia, because, after killing and/or carrying away to concentration camps quite few of the native population, Soviets brought in more Russian speaking colonists then German Nazis ever planed to bring in German colonists in accordance to their Ostland plan. Many of those are people, who consider Baltic countries more or less openly a legitimate acquisition by the Great Russia. Hence aggressiveness and arrogance against the local language and culture.
They are not mistreated, as Boris Abramov is trying to tell. Instead, they are Privileged Class no more. That is what drives them mad with hatred.
Poor “oppressed minority” of recent liberator-conquerors, with some another 140 million with tanks and nuclear weapons sitting just some 150 miles East. F#ck!
Of course, I am not talking about all Russian speakers, normally, in everyday life we get along very well. What I mean basically are “activists” like Boris here.
You might want to see Ethnic structure of Latvia
433)
I read both articles.
434)
I said that Muiznieks misquoted Hughes.
435)
Ethnic hatred is condemned wherever it is found.
433-1)
Lucky you
434-1)
Ah, so it was you. I approximately remember now. You basically ignored everything what Muiznieks said, instead concentrating on what you called “misquote”, which it actually was not. So it was your opinion about Muiznieks opinion.
435-1)
Yes it is.
Firstly, I am not pro-Moscow
That has to be the weirdest thing that anyone has ever said to me. LOL
Secondly, its funny how you say that “I try to destabilise the situation”. As far as I am concerned, I am trying to help the people of Baltic States (both minorities and native population) to understand how their government is using then as “sheep” to pursue their, or rather American, political agendas against Russia. If you wish to call it “destabilising” it is your choice.
You, on the other hand, never miss an opportunity to spread your hatful, racist, anti-Semitic and xenophobic message.
Shame on you!
LOL
“..hatful, racist, anti-Semitic and xenophobic..”
By chance… Are you a bot, Boris?
Boris-bot. 
Thank you for “trying to help”!
Now I would appreciate if you take your pink pills and go to bed…
P.S.
A guy, extremely worried by American or other “political agendas against Russia”, who considers being called “pro-Moscow” a “weirdest thing that anyone has ever said” about him.
LOL
It is so genuinely stupid that I even like that! 
I am sorry, can you clarify what YOU mean by the term “pro-Moscow”? Are you by any chance implying that I might be pro-Putin?
With regards to “American or other political agendas against Russia” - I think its pretty obvious to anyone more or less sane, not just the “pro-Moscow elements”.
Isn’t it strange (or perhaps not so) how you haven’t even tried to dispute any of the links I have provided? Yet you persisit in saying that there is no nationalism, racism and xenophobia in the Baltics. Hmmm..
On the other hand, I quess it’s not easy to dispute FACTS
or should it be this 
I do not want to discuss your “facts” because I have done it so many times before, that I am sick of it. I might do it when I am bored.
P.S. It is much easier for you, you can just copy+paste from Russian press. An if you are debunked you can just ignore it and say the same thing the next day and to start it all over again. Patience and resources, right, comrade?
MOSCOW, Aug. 14 — The Russian authorities said Tuesday that they were investigating a video recording of what appeared to be the grisly execution of two bound and gagged young men, filmed in a forest beneath a large Nazi flag. At least one of the men was beheaded on camera as he lay in a shallow grave.
/http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/15/world/europe/15russia.html/
The video shows two men with their mouths gagged and their hands tied behind their backs, kneeling in a forest in front of a large swastika flag. The film then shows a masked man beheading one man with a hunting knife.
Another section of the video shows a man shouting “Glory to Russia,” before shooting the second captive in the head.
/http://www.rferl.org/featuresarticle/2007/08/d470dd37-15b0-4e14-9c76-4df1a7acb89b.html/
FUCK YOU!
GO WATCH IT!
Dear Baltic Nationalist/talking beaver,
Firstly, come yourself down. Your verbal outburst simply perpetuates the perceived level of intolerance to contrary opinions, and any criticism of internal affairs, in the Baltic states.
Thank you for the link that you have so kindly provided. Let me say, that what I saw was absolutely horrific! In particular, it demonstrates to what awful extend nationalistic ideas can lead.
Sadly, Russia is also experiencing a rise of nationalism, which is not being addressed effectively. But let me say this again there is a big difference between neo-Nazism in Russia and neo-Nazism in the Baltic states. The difference is that neo-Nazism is not State-Supported in Russia, as it is in the Baltics.
For example, the forth link that I provided, looks at childrens xenophobic books in Estonia which have been approved by the Ministry of Education. These books feature kids Jokes such as: “Why do Russians wear straw hats? because you always must hay on manure” and what is the most wide spread animal in Estonia? Russians”. Frankly, when I saw this, I was absolutely appalled! These have to be the most hateful racist jokes that I have ever heard! Whats even more disturbing, is that they have been approved by the Estonian government as a suitable education material for kids. I mean come-on, how can anyone deny that individuals in Estonian government are not sick neo-Nazis?
Or take the Estonian monument to SS solders. This monument has also been approved, if not financed, buy the sick people in charge of Estonia. This monument basically glorifies people who have burned Jewish women and children in OVENS! I really cannot believe that a government that is now part of the European Union is committed to such hatful ideology. I think this yet again, proves the sickening hypocrisy of the EU.
I find it very sad that when I criticise Estonian, or any other Baltic governments, people of these countries regard it as a personal attack. If anything, I think this yet again proves that Nazi propaganda in these countries is working very-very well.
My condolences to people of Estonia.
You are incurable and really unique!
You are faced with real Russian Nazis cutting people heads off, and what do you do? You start complaining about Estonia! Unfuckingbeleavable!
P.S.
I would really want to see a Ministry of Education in EU country approving any type of book similar to the one you described. You, sick bastard!
“would really want to see a Ministry of Education in EU country approving any type of book similar to the one you described” - are you saying they were approved by Father Christmas?
I think most people will find it ironic how you are calling me “sick bastard”
Because that is coming for a person that has been persistently spreding lies and general propoganda in order to aid his racist ideas and horrific statements of hate.
Hi from Baltia.
It is FUB (Fucking unbelivable) that You guis are talking about Baltia , when You are looking to the roughly murdered by Russian fishermen Prehistoric Fish. :)))
I’m estonia . I employ bunch of russians. They donot complain about rassism or nazionalism here. They say that this stupid statue does not mean anything 10 years from now.
They go to work geting wages speaking in russian with me and others. nobody is beaten or killed for being russian or tagestanez or uzbek or even negro.
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But fish is cool. acording to scrathces on concrete floor this thing must be at least 50 cm long and very similar to “tadpole shrimp” only bigger. Why those fisherman didnt sent this thing to biologiststs?
….For example, the forth link that I provided, looks at childrens xenophobic books in Estonia which have been approved by the Ministry of Education. These books feature kids Jokes such as: Why do Russians wear straw hats? because you always must hay on manure and what is the most wide spread animal in Estonia? Russians…..
Can You read in estonian. I can. I newer found such jokes in those books. So sad. That animal joke was pretty nice.
Most those jokes are translated to estonia from english or russian replacing tsuktsi or negro with some other nation name. Good luck those are mostly russian jokes.
By the way there is lot of jokes about estonians themselve allso. ” What is estonian national food ? Other estonian. etc…
………..For example, the forth link that I provided, looks at childrens xenophobic books in Estonia which have been approved by the Ministry of Education. These books feature kids Jokes such as: Why do Russians wear straw hats? because you always must hay on manure and what is the most wide spread animal in Estonia? Russians…..
Its is incedible. Have You ever read a word in estonian ? or you just telling what your some friend was telling you in sauna. (finnish invention)
Can not you see the origin of the hat joke…. Why nigger wears straw hat.. Because manure must be covered with hay. there is lots of nigger jokes in english. (why manure? because niggers are black ) In estonia noboby understands this joke because there is so cold that nobody uses the straw hats at all and as I recall russians are not black.
same thing with other joke …What is favorite pet …. nigger.
Those are american jokes
Those jokes are translated from english , some of those rassistic jokes was translated from russian.(tsuktsy jokes). So there is nobody to blame.
I don’t think Baltic States have such big problem with racism or xenophobia. I think the bigger problem is corruption, high rates of crime and inefficient law enforcement. Lenient and forgiving prison sentences. I think hightened nationalism is always noticeable in smaller countries - it is used by communities as self preservation method to resist outside influence. Look at the jewish community and their culture - they are probably even more nationalistic and xenophobic as a whole. It helped them throughout the years to remain jewish and preserve the language, religion and culture. Of course i’m not talking about skinheads or nazis - that is sick and i think russia has much bigger problem with fascists. I’m simply discussing crowd psychology.
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… and there is no real scale to reference the size. More like 2 inches than 5 feet….
Right.
We all know what the water is. We also know quite well what its surface tension is.
Thus, from the “bulges” at the boundaries of the water puddle we can approximately guess the scale.
I would say the creature is relatively small. Ten inches, if we count the tail, maybe. Well, that is a rough guess.
As I remeber from old russian time there was common steel plate with sqweres about 1-1,2 inch 3-4 cm. it makes about 40 50 cm. Prety large for triops.
It’s awfully large for a triops. Since it’s got a hard shell, creepy legs, a slimy tail and a tendency to bite, I can understand why this creature may be found only in Russia. HA HA HA!
In Soviet Russia the shrimp throw australians on the barbeque?
see http://blog.sekano.org/?cat=104 triop and photos
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Headcrab imo
Are you perhaps blind? Your link pics look bugger all like the pics above unlike triops pictures at http://blog.sekano.org/?cat=104 which look EXACTLY the same. Man get some brains.
Oh and this things is around 7-8 inches long from top to tail. Just look at the water where it meets the dry concrete. Would the light reflection at the water edge look like that if it was 5 feet big? I think not.
Don’t be a douche, Sam’s post is a joke and a geek reference. OMG STOP CALLING IT THINGS THAT IT ISN’T~!
Let’s yell at everyone making amusing pop culture references, shall we?
this is a triops. if you look at the water it “mounds” up/distorts the light in a round manner. this means that it has to be really small. this is just a close up shot of something very small like 2-3 inches.
I highly doubt that this thing was 5 feet in length. You can look at the way the surface tension builds on the puddle of water around it, and estimate that its under 2 inches long.
Perhaps the moderator meant “5 inches”?
Lokk at the details of the pic. It is a very small creature, some type of shrimp? It is not an insect.
it is a creature from the underbelli of the earth
lots of future discoveries like this will happen
yep, in the future
dont be surprised when an highli inteligent beast of the underworld emerges
Its a TRIOP
Aliens!
Definitely not 5 feet. If it was 5 feet long then the thing that they appear to have flipped it over with was the size of my front door. I’m pretty sure you could find something a little easier to wield.
Whoah I thought it was a mutated sperm cell that did not turn into a human!! haha! cool!
This is an ‘alien’ lamprey grown from spores left by the Tunguska event in 1908. These have been known to ’sprout’ out of lakes and rivers in Russia ever since the comet exploded. They attach themselves to animals, usually livestock, like leeches and digest the animal from the iside out with a highly acidic excrement. They are widely regarded as the first alien species to invade this planet. Russians call them ‘сок обезьянка’ or roughly translated ‘juice monkey’.
I can vouch for all of the above.
And you can trust me, because I’m a doctor.
(actually I’m a gynaecologist but this is my lunch hour).
I want to eat it.
It is indeed a horsecrab. They are common along the east coast of America from Maine to Florida. They are bottom feeders and are quite harmless to man. Several places in the Orient actually eat the critters and use the large shells in their arts and crafts to sell to tourists. Generally you will find them washed up on the seashore after a big storm.
It’s a real photo of Triops cancriformis, the only trick is that a zoom function was used to make it look huge.
I’d place that thing at about 3 feet… Not 5 feet and definitely not just a few inches long.
Having owned triops, I can say with full confidence that this thing is not one. It most definitely can be related to the triops, though. That would surely explain its sudden revival from the water.
Ahh, suspended animation is awesome.
Woops… And by 3 feet, I mean barely over 1 foot, head to tail.
Woops… And by 3 feet, I mean more like barely over one foot, head to tail.
I hate all these fraud “news” articles.
Judging by the way the water beads up in the photos, it should be obvious to any half-observant person that the thing is only about the size of a fingernail.
The whole story is pure bullshit.
Us Russians are stupid, It could be a dinosaur fish and some dumb vodkaholic Russian kills the last male and female rare water creature!
“Us Russians are stupid”
You are speaking for yourself.
In Japan, these are called “kabuto ebi” or “helmet shrimp”
http://miizu.hp.infoseek.co.jp/sizen/tanbo/tanbo.htm
also known as Triops
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triops
pretty amazing and prehistoric really!
I buzzed out the first time I saw one in a rice paddy near my house.
OMG ITS A HEADCRAB!!!
“Nobody of them got any idea of what’s that”
… I’m guessing the author was the construction worker who found it.
Jesus.
I’ve seen this in my paleontology class. It looks to me like a type of branchiopod, of the phylum arthropoda. Probably the triops.
I wonder how long before this thing ends up on snopes? The important thing is that the “5 feet long” part of the story is patently false. Look at the pores in the concrete, and the fact that the photographer somehow managed to keep anything that might give a better sense of scale out of the picture. Then the dramatic details about how this toothless animal tried to bite its discoverers…
It’s a beautiful triops, no need to surround it with lies to make it interesting.
Looks faked to me… would like to see some video. Anyone have any follow up news on this?
Aliens shall not pass!
It looks like some relative of the “triop” which would make sense, since they can lay dormant in eggs for years.
Five feet? More like 5 centimeters
Yeah, it’s a shield shrimp of some kind. Not a Horseshoe Crab, and definitely not 5 feet long. Even 5 inches is pushing it, from the water spreading, relative detail on the metal surface & specimen, as well as the camera angle.
I’ve lived around horseshoe crabs all my life and I’ve earned a BS in Biology and I can tell anyone here that that creature is not a horseshoe crab. It is almost certainly a triops and its size has been greatly exaggerated. And it probably didn’t try to bite anyone either.
I wonder if this came from the well where the Russians heard the sounds of HELL….
Judging from the pictures, I’d say this monster is 1-2 inches in length. Note how the image blurs as the camera got closer. If you’re going to zoom in on these little creatures, your camera needs a macro setting.
its a triops! sheesh. seen and own one. look it up. DEFINITELY NOT FAKE. dont cry ‘photoshop’.
It’s a Triffid…
it looks so… Wierd animal.
It looks like a metal file.
It looks like a 1 inch metal file next to a dead bottom feeder.
That looks nasty!
The world can once again sleep safely thanks to the internet and the freedom loving alien from the pothole in the street finding workers. Any excuse for a day off…lord they must be bored there.
Actually that’s called a Notostraca
everyone keeps finding ( and killing ) all the cool prehistoric animales keep it in ta cage find a researcher.
Yes, it’s a triops (I’m positive). They get 1-2 inches long depending on species (shell plus tail). I used to have some as pets. My species only lived about 8 weeks long. But their eggs can survive drying out, so they are easy to buy in some stores or via the internet.
I would love to see it alive.
I would have loved to see it alive!
for crying out loud!
There’s just too much friggin ignorance out there by people with computers!
if you want to see one alive then buy them here!
http://www.sciplus.com/recommend.cfm/recommendid/7397
They’re a Triops species you bunch of dumb asshats
just look at the image
Do you really think that dozen of those things can live in a ditch if they’re 5 FEET LONG!!!
does water behave like that on concrete at that kind of distance
come on… are most of the people replying 12 years old or do they all have a 4th grade education in a 3rd world nation?
I swear we need to have some way to stop these idiots from breeding!
this has gone on for far too long.
It’s only been 200 million years.
it´s an alien facehugger photoshopped to look like a triops
OH please. Look at the picture! 5 feet my EYE! thats maybe 1-3 inches max. What a hoax
my guess is one inch, and yes, it’s a Triops. You can see the two tantacle like pieces at the end of the tail wrapped around eachother making it look like a particularly long sinister tail. And no, nothing was photoshoped. The picture just doesn’t show scale.
My antispam word was russian, that’s ironic.
Anyway
WHY THE HELL DID THEY KILL IT! Of course they didn’t know what it was they are all no grad construction workers. That could have been a HUGE study in science, think of it. A LIVE PREHISTORIC CREATURE AND THEY KILL IT!!!
IDIOTS
“My antispam word was russian, that’s ironic.”
It’s not “ironic”, moron. My antispam words have been “moscow” and “stalin” — do you detect a pattern?
“That could have been a HUGE study in science, think of it.”
Hardly; there are millions of these things.
“A LIVE PREHISTORIC CREATURE AND THEY KILL IT!!!”
Thanks for the oxymoron, idiot. This thing was born recently. If you’re talking about the morphology, humans are also “prehistoric”, since the form existed before human recorded history.
A whore shoe crab? You gotta be kiddin’ me.
Maybe this has something to do with it?
http://www.logtv.com/films/chelyabinsk/
Behold, capitalists!
It’s children of the Putin’s plan!
Ultimate facehugger - has anyone noticed that science fiction always becomes real science?
like when they discovered that the morray eel has a second mouth that comes out and chomps at prey? just like alien…
Damn.. Creationism, you are fucked!
KABUTOPS!!!!! Catch it ASH!
actually the term is triops and The fact that this creature has not evolved in millions of years is quite perplexing
“actually the term is triops and The fact that this creature has not evolved in millions of years is quite perplexing”
The only thing “perplexing” is your utter failure to understand evolution. The triops has evolved, into numerous other species. But the original triops morphology is still fit for its niche, and so that persists.
The best part about all these people who think it’s genuine is that they are too blind to notice that the “large” grey-black object poking the Sea Monkey in this picture is the end of a chisel/file.
This thing (clearly a Triops, you retards) is under 1 inch long. Look at the surface tension of the water. Look at the chisel tip. Look at the exceptional detail in the grain of the concrete.
They took the picture at high zoom with a competent digital cam and kept anything (aside from the chisel, which I guess they thought would be unidentifiable) from providing scale.
Jesus you’re a useless barrel of dipshits.
global warming is melting these things out of the permafrost and then they come back. That thing looks like 20ft long.
I’m pretty sure that black thing next to it is a kitchen sponge… which means this is indeed just a few inches long.
“It was almost trod upon by a dwarf!” Yeah, it’s pretty damn easy to confuse feet (’) with inches (”).
Anyone who thinks its a horseshoe crab is nuts. Totally wrong tail, shell shape, size, etc.
And Dennis, please tell me you were joking when you said whore shoe. Please.
And why do kids these days INSIST everything has to be Photoshop. Jebus. There are so many other things that it COULD be without resorting to photoshop. Like “macro-mode” of a real “object” that is “small”
Also, I had to type KgB as my antispam word. Bet they are watching too.
With no human in the shot it’s hard to scale, thus it being fake.
Oh… My god..
-_- What is it? …
oh..no.. -_-terrible
Please go here: http://www.redbook.ru/proekt-trios_cancr.htm
This creature is from red book.
That explains it
http://www.redbook.ru/article848.html
Urgh! Oh, jesus, I don’t care how big it actually is; it belongs dead.
I am sure this creature is indeed 5 feet long, or even more. picture was photoshopped though, so it looks smaller, and this way this will not cause global panic. now all you ‘i-can-google’ geeks thinks it is not what it is in fact, which is.. i don’t know. but sure it is not from earth, not from our universe at all.
however, me and couple of ladies are going to hide and live somewhere in siberia, wait for world to collapse and then start a new era of mankind. i mean, more intelligent, more beautiful and sexier mankind.
here are pictures of my ladies: http://englishrussia.com/?p=1582 - of course it wasn’t what it looked like, it was only for the rest of the world not to know what te future is.
have a nice day.
At a first glance it looks to me as wife of polish presidend Mr. Kartofel Kaczynski
It’s a tadpole shrimp and it’s not even close to 5 feet long.
It’s a tadpole shrimp. Also, look at the beading of the water. The water is elevated by surface tension, and without something to give it structure, I believe it’s just a 1mm-2mmin height giving you some scale. Also, the granularity of the surface it’s on appears, to me, to be highly magnified concrete.
Nice hoax, though.
5 feet tall? More like 5 cm!
It’s a triops retard
Its not an alien, its an invertebrate with a very ancient body plan:
Phil Torres from a few posts down seems to be right.
Looks like a Branchiopod Crustacean from the order Notostraca.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Notostraca
most of you people are morons. its obviously a triop made to look like a BIG scary creature. you can see where the two “tails” are twisted around each other.
The world is coming to an end, run for the hills!
Those brave construction workers have saved us from certain death!
More creatures will be coming to earth soon, so arm yourselves and hide your children, they bite you know!
Look here:
http://www.cst.cmich.edu/users/mcnau1as/zooplankton%20web/Triops/Triops.html
Ned
Hey have an open mind. Maybe the ditch was filled with glycerine, and they were filing down the wall with a big-ass chisel because some idiot used boulders as aggregate for the concrete.
Or maybe it’s a couple-centimeter Triops. Sheesh people.
sea monkey
…скока понаписали всего….Американские падонки ! :))
I’ve reared them before and it’s a Triops. Simple Notostracan. Not a horseshoe crab; those are saltwater.
Аааааааааааа щитни атакуют!!!
Damn! They killed Keny!
Fake?
“Oh Fuck, not another Phlilum”
(Extreme insider paleontologist humor)
Oh My God! This is Tryahomudia, a beast from beyond!
I think this is some sort of marketing promotion for the new JJ Abramson film due out in January 2008. They are doing some viral marketing with fake web sites all around the world and dummy videos on youtube. This looks just like the creature in his film.
if picture not fake then its looks really cool
Get a life. Maybe a girlfriend. I just wasted a full ten minutes of my time scrolling through all your petty arguing. Shits fake!
WHY? Why would you write an article so completely fake and easy to disprove?
Durr hurr it’s 5 feet long and prehistoric duhhh.
The triop doesn’t even look 5 inches in that photo. This is just embarrassing.
I think it’s a Lepidurus Arcticus and you like joking.
http://www.galerie-insecte.org/galerie/ref-24229.htm
Lepidurus are inoffensive and are very small.
L. Arcticus like fresh waters of Norway, Greenland and Russia.
They’re bisexual and hermaphroditic.
I wanted to believe this as much as the next ‘the truth is out there’ buff but after looking at both the horseshoe crab and the triop, it is definetely one of them. You people have to remember that it’s not gonna look EXACTLY like the pics you get of either on the net (afterall, not all dogs of the same breed look EXACTLY the same) but it’s resembles both too damn close to be coinicidence. Give it up and move onto the next internet fad. There are some nice faked UFO vids on YouTube.
What the fuck does cutting someones head off with a bowie knife have to do with tadpoles?
Thanks for the holiday cheer
AHH, HEADCRAB
Isn’t it sad that people will try and fake a story like this. Triops are pretty incredible creatures anyway. As for the Horseshoe crab theorists. You won in Vietnam.
Those things that everyone is everyone is calling “triops” all have forked, shorter tails and are a lighter color than the above photos, if the picture is taken as authentic. I don’t know much about this stuff, except what I can see - and even with my untrained eye I can see that this creature, large or tiny, is not a “trops.” More suggestions please!
There are many species of triops, with differences in size and color. And as for the forked tail? Look at the last picture, the fork is held together by the water’s surface tension. A little more proof that it is about 1 inch long.
No, you’re right, I kind of see the forked tail under water int he one picture. Why does its shell look different than other kinds of triops, do you think? I couldn’t find pictures of a specific kind which match the one in the photos.
And by the way - how do such academically-achieved sounding folks have time to come to this site and identify this creature (I wouldn’t think this would be news). What field are you studied in, that you would know so much about “triops” and “surface tension?” Just curious, that’s all. I’m certainly no expert with my degrees in English!
I have a bowl full of these things on my windowsill right now. Triops. About an inch and a half long.
Actually it IS a prehistoric creature,that lives to this day,just like the aligator and crocodile,or shark for that matter,it’s a brachiopode and one of the oldest living fossils,around 200 mil years old,there are in fact more prehistoric cretures in the seas,lakes etc than we think.
I from Chelyabinsk.
me in an aquarium such lives. Come to Russia!
this is a Triop, I have been raising them for quite some time. although the largest i have ever seen or heard of is 5 inches not 5 feet. either some one is good at doctoring pictures or has a very bad sense of measurement. they just dont grow that big, and most live no longer than 90 days at the most. they are considered to be preistoic, there has been fossilized remains found in 250 million year old rocks.
The pic is real but too zoomed. The story is fake. Triops never get 600mm. Their real size is around ~40mm.
You can find em anywhere on our planet, but they become rare. They should be added to the red book. Some stupid ppl killing them. But triops are harmless.
Hey, maybe its a horseshoe crab with an eel stuck up it’s butt!!!
y…yo no soy de estados unidos pero vieron a ese pez y lo cagaron a palos???que mal!!!:( es como si yo viera un animal nunca antes visto y lo mato eso vale pura fortuna!!!!!
maybe it’s jesus? he didn’t say what form he was coming back as.
it’s a false story!the translater understood 5 foot but it was something about 5 fotos!love triops
too bad there is no scale on the image to compare how big it is
Too bad there is no scale in the picture to compare the size of the animal
Triops can get up to 5 inches.
http://mytriops.com/articles/triops_species2.stm#tnumidicus
old is gold……..
Maybe it’s a piece of shit with a tail.
It’s none of the above - it’s a descendant of some kind of trilobite, and no, I don’t believe it’s any 5 feet, either.
I think it’s Triops longicaudatus
OMG it looks just like those things in the Alien movies that grab your face and lay eggs in your chest!!!
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This creature is a very …well HUGE Triops species and may be nearly 5 inches long judging from the gigantic seperation at more than 5 different places (unless someone was GREAT with photoshop)
I am positive that this was only an accidental mistranslation of 5 inches (still awsome!) to 5 feet. I
dought it was a purposful “fake” but I could ALWAYS be wrong.
this looks very small.I don’t think this is fake,this is too real for photoshop.anywayz they already found animals which are “not existing” already
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it’s no wonder
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by the way…i live in florida. thats no damn horshoe crab. good chance at a triops though, but theyre extremely much smaller….ive not seen anything living like this in a good long while.
that’s some scary shit right there
lmfao
no one is even bothering to google triops even though it IS a triop.
you can actually buy a kit on how to grow them.
it works, my biology teacher did it and we have at least 20 of them.
Hm, well, if this is a fake then that is a latex model, since water cannot be faked, and that water is obviously around 2 feet in width, judging from the way its soaked in and formed. If you take a photo of water then you can tell how close it is, water looks different and ‘inflated’ up close.
The water, the dirt, and the cracks are the biggest keys here and the reflection also helps a lot. You cant get that kind of picture from a small thing.
If its real then awesome, if its fake then its a very realistic replica, and no its not a triop
Its a large Triop. Like from the songs Triop Has Three Eyes.
Why does the thread hit 2009 then go back to 2007…I find it really weird. Oh yeah, that and WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT THING!?!?!
looks like a limulus
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Notostraca
Theory of Evolution is such bullshit …
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its a triop you idiots they dont grow even half of 5 foot
its a triop i have had them as pets
a triop is a living fossil its species is over200 millon years
I remember too. The important point is that we do not condone oppression and hatred.
No, you don’t want to discuss facts beacuse you know full-well that it would be impossible to dispute them. Because quess what? - they are FACTS!
Baltic States are in trouble and racists like you (besides the government) are a significant part of the problem.
agree
Yes, Baltic States are in trouble in a way that there is huge unpredictable Russia sitting next to them, viewing them as its legitimate property temporary separated from its body by cunning, evil, and degrading West.
Certain politicians and activists in Russian speaking community seem to be very keen to fix it, in a perfect case even re-uniting Baltic States with Russia.
Any means are good for this. International smear propaganda campaigns in the best Dr. Gebbels traditions are important part of it. Whereas “activists” like you are important part of that part.
Of course, Baltic people, who do not want to speak Russian in their homelands and to take orders from Moscow must be “racists” and “fascists” to you, how else? Because anyone who is not russophile “internationalist” socialist is definitely russophobe racist fascist. There are no other options.
All “internationalists” prefer Russian to their own language, you know. That is mandatory. If they don’t - they are pathetic nationalists (nationalists in Russian sense of the word - i.e. chauvinists/racists ) and fascists. “You better do what I want and do it quick or else you are damn Fascist oppressing me!” That fascinatingly simple.
I just wonder how many people do actually realize that we are dealing with Russian neo-imperialism here. Because that’ s what it is all about.
This kind of fish, hong kong Lama Island has many. More than 10 inches round.
they make soup from it because not much to flesh on its body
http://www.horseshoecrab.org/news/pdf/Prehistoric%20horseshoe%20crab%20under%20threat%20in%20Hong%20Kong.pdf