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Prehistoric Fish Found Alive in a Russian Pond (PICS)

englishrussia.com — Russian Workers in Chelyabinsk city caught a strange creature in a ditch and it tried to bite them. They then killed it with some equipment and these pictures are the remains of it. It was around 5 feet length.

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  • dsully215, on 11/14/2007, -3/+251Godzilla's semen.
  • johnburk, on 11/14/2007, -7/+181It doesn't look like 5 feet
  • zoxx, on 11/14/2007, -1/+162I doubt that this is even close to the scariest thing you could find in an underground Russian river.
  • SlamShut, on 11/14/2007, -8/+166Okay. It's important to understand this organism's life cycle. It's actually two creatures. The first form hatches from a spore-- a sort of large egg, and attaches itself to its victim. Then it injects an embryo, detaches and dies. It's essentially a walking sex organ.
  • solomania9, on 11/13/2007, -2/+99It's a fake - case closed - here's why:
    If you download one of the photos and look at the EXIF data, you'll see that it was taken with a Sony Ericsson camera phone in the "Close view" setting, which according to the below link has a distance from the lens of 22-95 cm (.7-3.1 feet). There's no way you can photograph something that's 5 feet long from only 3 feet away.
    http://forum2.mobile-review.com/archive/index.php/ ...
    As posted in the original thread, it's most likely one of these things:
    http://blog.sekano.org/?cat=104

  • nooreazy, on 11/13/2007, -8/+104Its a Fossil Pokemon!
  • Shalaby, on 11/14/2007, -7/+95Defiantly not 5 feet long! there called triops.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Notostraca
  • Smwbigboss, on 11/13/2007, -6/+91I'm sorry, but if some weird-ass headcrab thing jumped out at me, my first thought would be to kill it too.
  • inactive, on 11/13/2007, -4/+87You never notice you have it in you until it hatches out of your chest.
  • Lane, on 11/14/2007, -11/+78I'll never understand.... people find something they think is weird enough to post pictures on the internet but they figure "oh what the hell, lets kill it first."
  • mrbubbleboy, on 11/13/2007, -3/+70the thing looks like a damn alien
  • sv7nsson, on 11/14/2007, -3/+64I'm calling BS... if you look at the surface tension of the water in puddles around the bugger, you can tell it's only a couple of inches long. It looks like a Triops to me (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triops).
  • Roger, on 11/13/2007, -1/+52Then they mostly come out at night. Mostly.
  • inertic, on 11/13/2007, -4/+51Shouldn't you be in bed by now?
  • thewump, on 11/13/2007, -0/+435 feet? Burried as inaccurate. Fish don't have feet.
  • allaboutdatiki, on 11/13/2007, -5/+45It looks like a cross between a horseshoe crab and an alligator. Bar-b-que sauce or drawn butter?
  • totorototoro, on 11/13/2007, -0/+39I think what was lost in the translation (besides "fish" ) was the measurement system.
  • BassMastr, on 11/13/2007, -0/+38You'd figure where there was one, there had to be others...
  • Bega, on 11/13/2007, -1/+35people will forever laugh and call you "the man who ran away from a crab"
  • yoda17, on 11/12/2007, -7/+40Will it blend?
    /sorry, hangs head in shame
  • jacko7, on 11/13/2007, -1/+32It's only a matter of time before it's 50 feet tall and has a very catastrophic appetite.

    Lock and Load, bitches.
  • mysteri0usdrx, on 11/13/2007, -11/+42this just in: there is no such thing as a foreigner on the internet. the internet is NOT american.
  • lukas88, on 11/13/2007, -0/+31That is if you are assuming that the surface tension is consistent with conditions found on earth. Clearly these pictures were taken on the moon. Which implies a bigger question: How long has russia been building houses on the moon?
  • pennvneff, on 11/13/2007, -0/+305 feet my ass
  • Civil44, on 11/13/2007, -2/+30you can buy these online and grow them in a small fish tank.
  • Lemethe, on 11/13/2007, -0/+26Not near as scary as a radioactive manbearpig
  • mattes5, on 11/12/2007, -0/+24I have no clue what it is... but I am pretty sure its not a Horseshoe crab... because it looks nothing like whats in those pictures... those things have sharp spine tails... different then what this has.
  • whiteninja, on 11/13/2007, -6/+28What's with all these "FOREIGNERS FIND SEA MONSTER, KILL IT" articles lately?
  • bmystry, on 11/12/2007, -2/+23what if it flies?
  • CompIsMyRx, on 11/12/2007, -1/+20You win the award for subtlety.
  • burnswhenipee, on 11/13/2007, -0/+19You're obviously the smartest guy in the room. People like me have to get by on common sense.

    I knew it was fake because Russians use metric.
  • AmICoolNow, on 11/13/2007, -0/+19I don't care how big that thing it. It scares the ***** out of me.
  • Roger, on 11/13/2007, -0/+18It won't just be a crab when I tell the story.
  • sexybobo, on 11/12/2007, -0/+18After just finishing half life 2 I am pretty sure i know what is wrong with running away from a head crab
  • KingGorilla, on 11/12/2007, -0/+17it obviously goes on/in your head and controls your brain
  • Gamer2k4, on 11/12/2007, -1/+17Trilobite*. Stop thinking about computers.
  • msergeant, on 11/13/2007, -2/+18You have wayyyyyyyyy to much time, the interwebs need more people like you !!
  • humpy, on 11/12/2007, -2/+17Wow, the irony in that post was fantastic. It's spelled grammar. You also missed his misspelling of definitely.
  • aflaks, on 11/14/2007, -10/+25which genius decided this is prehistoric. I swear to god, the articles on digg these days are just pathetic.
  • inactive, on 11/12/2007, -1/+15i love it when you talk dirty to me.
  • msergeant, on 11/12/2007, -1/+15Facecrab, I choose you !
  • wesamel, on 11/13/2007, -1/+14It's clearly some type of crustacean not a fish, considering the shell and legs.
  • Motodog, on 11/12/2007, -0/+13You're both wrong, it's a crustalien.
  • thumperings, on 11/12/2007, -2/+14first of all this is nonsense when it says it's 5 feet long. DO you see the surface tension on the water near it? It proves it's about 2 inches long or less, which means it's probably a triops .. which you can see for yourself here http://mytriops.com/gallery/
  • verifex, on 11/13/2007, -0/+12Believe it or not, there are hundreds and thousands of people around the world who study nature, and make it their goal in life to study and categorize every single last living organism on the planet in order to understand our planet better. The chances of even one of those people being on digg is very good considering the cross-section of diggers that happen to be from Slashdot; and there is a high-concentration of scientists on slashdot, in case you didn't know.
  • Daveecee, on 11/12/2007, -0/+11It is not a Horseshoe crab. Buried
  • Daveecee, on 11/13/2007, -6/+17A horseshoe crab? Did you even bother to compare the two photos?

    Buried.
  • donkeydrop, on 11/12/2007, -0/+11It's a triops, and maybe 2-3" across tops.
  • carbonetc, on 11/12/2007, -3/+13Um, they are prehistoric.
  • Gamer2k4, on 11/12/2007, -3/+13That thing clearly isn't dead, either. It's flopping around.
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