Comments on: Name the Mystery Fish

By: randomthorn4714

randomthorn4714 — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 04:45:07 +0000

^_^ looks like a shark to me.

By: travler1300

travler1300 — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 09:30:32 +0000

Or it might be a african python depending on where in the world they are, both able to grow that large, the anaconda and African python

By: travler1300

travler1300 — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 09:30:00 +0000

It’s not a fish at all. It’s a giant anaconda snake. they grow up to 100ft or so long, but its very rare. You can Google giant anaconda and pull up this same picture under images

By: GizaSphinx

GizaSphinx — Sun, 24 Jun 2007 18:17:01 +0000

Yes, I spent some more time just staring at this, and its now beyond any doubt to me, that this is the head of one animal, layed upon another animal. Its a joke these three men made, nothing more.

By: GizaSphinx

GizaSphinx — Sun, 24 Jun 2007 18:14:35 +0000

Ah, I know this may be a little late to add my two cents, however I’m quite sure I know what this is. I’ve spent a long time looking at this photo, and noticed that there is no clear connection between the head and the body. This leads me to the conclusion that this is the head of one animal, layed upon the body of another, simply as a joke to make it appear as a strange creature. Hopefully some people are still watching this and will see this comment. I’m very very sure about this.

By: Bob Michaels

Bob Michaels — Fri, 18 May 2007 18:54:10 +0000

A Crocodile Shark, yes it exists.

By: GregH

GregH — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 22:47:20 +0000

It is a the decayed remains of a Tiger shark that has had it’s fins and tail removed. The “stick” in front of it is a handle for the stretcher they carried it with.

By: Loren Coleman

Loren Coleman — Wed, 18 Oct 2006 02:12:09 +0000

If not a fish, then what? If not a real animal, then what? Have people seen this before? Does it haunt the psyche as something long remembered but now forgotten? The mystery continues…into over 350 comments through 2006.

By: Loren Coleman

Loren Coleman — Mon, 16 Oct 2006 23:49:41 +0000

Wow…114 comments at

Name the Mystery Fish

but whatever happened to that compiled list of ideas…

it only reached 75?

By: Curious_Hanuman

Curious_Hanuman — Fri, 07 Jul 2006 01:18:21 +0000

Not a fish.

Any prize fish (caught or found) worth photographing would either be strung up by its tail, held by the three men, or if a bit rotten- it would be at their feet and they would be standing or kneeling behind it. The lucky fisherman photos at the local bait shop always have the same format.

More likely a windsock or kite. Note the frayed canvas edge below the neck. Also, the stick aligned with the “fish” has looped string going from the stick to the edge of the canvas fish clearly visible at a couple of points. The crudely painted face and the daubing of paint along the sides, lack of body fins, pointed nose, cartoony way the mouth line directly connects to gill slit, faintly visible ribs of a wooden framework, canvas weave showing in body paint, paper-mache look of head.

Could be a joke mascot for a barracks, remnant of a prank, or local souvenir immortalized in a postcard for the friends back home.