Comments on: Goonch: Mutant Fish?

By: Sordes

Sordes — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 21:11:49 +0000

I would not believe in all such things like the killing of people or at least children (although it is possibly not completely impossible). But in contrast to most other catfish the members of the genus Bagarius have very large, even a bit shark-like and very viscious teeth. And they look very viscious (but keep in mind that an animal doesn´t have to look mean to be able to kill a human) .

By: giantchaser

giantchaser — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 00:44:00 +0000

Well, I’d love to understand how these beasts can drag victims underwater and drown them. They don’t seem to be vicious looking, or have teeth.

Or rope for that matter…

By: korollocke

korollocke — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 05:30:41 +0000

The eating burned human bodies was a nice touch, but didn’t monster quest cover the whole monster fish eating a child thing already?

By: Rogutaan

Rogutaan — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 00:31:34 +0000

Catfish can get big. I can’t say I’m surprised by the size.

Whats with the names though?

B. yarelli, B. yarellii, and B. yarrelli

I bet that gets confusing fast in scientific papers…

By: tonigreenaway

tonigreenaway — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 00:26:11 +0000

Cryptidsrus is right… Our tabloids are terrible and the Sun is by far the worst…. they’d happily print that the Loch Ness Monster had done the can-can in front of one of their reporters if it would sell papers. They usually stick to reporting on all the celeb gossip though, so for them this makes a nice change.

As for Channel 5 doing a documentary I’d not set much store by that either. Channel 5 has been a flop from the day it began broadcasting. They need something exciting to gain ratings.

By: cryptidsrus

cryptidsrus — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 18:04:12 +0000

Holy swamoli, that’s a big fish!!!
British tabloids are even worse than American ones, so I would take whatever they say with a heaping big tablespoon of salt.

By: Sordes

Sordes — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 17:42:05 +0000

This bizarre fish is really interesting, but it is very hard to find good information about them. I suppose most people have never heard of them before, and I can understand why it is easy to think it is some kind of mutant, but it is really not respectable to make articles with such stupid headlines like those of the Sun. But I would actually not rule out that this fish will feed on human corpses in the water. In contrast to many other catfish Bagarius species have very big and sharp teeth and are surely able to tear of pieces from a carcass, especially when it was for some time in the water. BTW, the 161 Ibs is probably not a world record, because earlier this year one of 86kg was caught.