What the Hell?
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Sweet.
I think it's an Alien!
Looks like my ex.
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/24/08
I hate pictures of dead animals. I feel like it's just as unkind as photos of dead humans.
I could believe that is a turtle, but I don't know what a turtle looks like underneath its shell. Are they that fat? Whatever it is, it's a poor dead little thing because it looks like its skin is sunburnt from being in the sun.
It's kinda beaky around the mouth. I'm learning towards tortoise/turtle/one of them.
Raccoon. The poor thing has been in the water quite a while, and the head angle is misleading. I am like namaste - I can't even look at this photo without feeling sorry for the poor thing.
A turtle's body is actually attached to it's shell it is not and animal that can climb our of it if it wished (like so many cartoons suggest). I agree with raccoon.
Someone somewhere suggested it's a water rat. Whatever it is, the size is deceptive. I think it's a lot smaller than the turtle/pig/dog suggestions seem to indicate.
I also agree with those who think it's not organic at all but a hoax of some sort made out of latex and other such materials.
I wasn't thinking so much a turtle that had clambered out of its shell as a turtle that had been removed from its shell by some other outside agent (a child or a stupid-but-strong animal).
Anyhoo. ^_^
The thing is there wouldn't be a skin where the back and belly meet the shell of a turtle. The shell is attached, it is the skin. This animal has an epidermis.
A water rat sounds a likely candidate or an unfortunate pug who got drowned perhaps.
IF it was real you'd think some biology department somewhere would have taken it and figured out what it was.
It really is freaky, but I agree that the decomposition is causing it to look more alien than it probably is.
HDThoreau2? Is that you?
I think it's a good fake. It's very creepy looking, if it was something living.
I think it's a penguin.
It's kinda cute, whatever it was. Poor thing.
It happens to be the eraserhead baby.
Nah. It's not cute. lol It's just scary.
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