8/2/2008 6:16:04 PM

dead??? i was just taking a nap

8/2/2008 6:17:03 PM

w.t.f?

8/2/2008 6:17:29 PM

Uh, is it just me or is it giving us the finger?

8/2/2008 6:18:04 PM

hoax hoaxgan

8/2/2008 6:18:25 PM

Quote :

"New York's celebrity-obsessed Hamptons summer season got even sillier this week when a strange-looking, very dead creature washed up on a beach in Montauk at the far eastern end of New York's Long Island."

8/2/2008 6:18:49 PM

the back half of it is a turkey

8/2/2008 6:19:19 PM

well, it appears to be a dead monster.

8/2/2008 6:19:25 PM

raccoon

8/2/2008 6:19:41 PM

some people are saying it is an escaped mutant government project because there is apparently some secret test facility close to where that thing came ashore

8/2/2008 6:20:05 PM

hahah, "very dead creature"

8/2/2008 6:21:43 PM

it looks a lot like what a washed-up human would look like on a beach

maybe its a shaved cat or something, with drowned blood

8/2/2008 6:24:00 PM

looks like they stuffed a lobster claw into the mouth of a dead capybara

8/2/2008 6:26:15 PM

aha capybara

if a javelina ever got loose on the east coast, people would be calling 911 about a devil dog

8/2/2008 6:28:12 PM

Quote :

"arlier this week, Gawker, a New York gossip blog, posted a picture of what appeared to be a strange sea creature that was washed on the Montauk beach after a storm. The blog post, which bared the title “Dead Monster Washes Ashore in Montauk” gave several possible explications for the origin of the bizarre creature, one of them being that it was part of a viral marketing campaign. The images led to an interesting Internet debate, in which people posted responses giving their opinion on what the creature might be. The “Montauk Monster,” as it became known, bares resemblance to a skinned dog, but has a dinosaur-like beak and pointy teeth. Some of the animals that the people thought that the creature might be are dogs, raccoons and shell-less turtles (even though such an animal doesn't exist in real life, and the lack of the shell might suggest a genetic abnormality). Scientists have rushed to say that the monster cannot be any of these creatures. It seems that its feet are too wide apart to be a raccoon, its eye ridge is not that of a dog and turtles don't have teeth. What is more, its back feet look like sheep feet, while its front ones have strangely elongated paws. Scientists believe that either the picture was created using Photoshop or that somebody used latex or other materials that can resemble skin to create this strange animal. However, looking back to those days when a dead platypus was shown to scientists for the first time, some of them though that the animal was the creation of a taxidermist."

8/2/2008 6:29:35 PM

even in death....it looks pissed

8/2/2008 6:30:07 PM

oooh its in montauk?

that really will get the conspiracy theories going. look up the montauk project

8/2/2008 6:33:01 PM

these surfers claim they have the bones & remains in zip lock bags - there's video of it

the most likely explanations i've heard are - a turtle w/o it's shell, a pitbull, or AN ALIEN

[Edited on August 2, 2008 at 6:42 PM. Reason : cnn.com]

8/2/2008 6:42:35 PM

you guys do understand that if the turtle didnt have its shell, even by genetic defect


it wouldnt have ribs and a backbone

8/2/2008 6:43:49 PM

its a freaking raccoon with its head starting to rot

the "beak" is really just part of the skull showing

8/2/2008 6:56:16 PM

or teeth

read my article

8/2/2008 6:56:21 PM

i think i read the article

yea...i did

and it had nothing to do with my post really

8/2/2008 6:57:46 PM

= dead raccoon

hmm

8/2/2008 7:00:18 PM

Right but it's giving you the finger.

8/2/2008 7:02:01 PM

Jimmy Hoffa in the Love Canal exposed?!?!?!?!?!?!?

8/2/2008 7:02:48 PM

8/2/2008 7:07:46 PM

That one isn't giving us the finger though dude.

8/2/2008 7:08:42 PM

chupacabra

8/2/2008 7:38:20 PM

looks like a Koala to me.

8/2/2008 7:42:58 PM

in new york

8/2/2008 7:51:55 PM