obviously a seaturtle or tortoise born with a mutation. it's not liek these things don't happen in nature. maybe it's mother smoked crack...

i see hair on it so not a turtle.

what do you think this would look like with no shell?

http://www.nasa.gov/centers/kennedy/...in_76c3034.jpg
http://coolaggregator.files.wordpres...mg_1883_3_.jpg

it's a fucking turtle. how long do we have to wait for a marine biologist to step in here and confirm...

It's a dog.

Ya seriously. Not much of a mystery. Either born without a shell, or it was cracked away or something.

they say it maybe a raccoon with its jaw torn off

http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/story?se...cal&id=6297096

It's a coon dog.

http://slog.thestranger.com/files/2006/09/raccoon.jpg

does it look like it has it's fucking jaw ripped off? god damn it. i can't believe there's even a controversy over this...

i would bet anything and everything i owned it is a fucking turtle if they had the corpse and could positively identify it...

turtle turtle turtle...

guys thats a fuckin pig not a turtle

i've cut up enough pigs to assure you that is most definitely not a pig...

you guys that think its a turtle have obviously never seen a turtle in real life, much less cleaned and eaten one.

It's not a turtle. Turtles don't have teethe and a turtle does not look like that without the shell.

Whatever it has been skinned, you can still see see some fur on its neck as well as its pelt rolled inside out on its leg where it has been skinned.

Tail is too long for a turtle. Legs are too long and its not wide enough.

The beak is what throws me off and makes me think this is a photoshop.

http://courses.science.fau.edu/~jwyneken/sta/ ---> skull anatomy -->

search for the premaxilla & maxilla bone structures, compare with the picture. the premaxilla bone is the pointed nosebone of the turtle. then scroll lower down until you hit the section on the rhampothecal structure. the rhamphtheci is the actual beak, like you have on a bird, see how they go on about the lower rhamphotheci as being serrated in certain species of sea turlte. compare the diagram to the picture... ..

http://courses.science.fau.edu/~jwyneken/sta/ ---> skelatal anatomy --> flip through the skeletal diagrams, and check out the bone structure of the front and rear flippers, compare. also look at the tail bone in the skeletal diagrams.

it's been dead for a while, and probably floated a long ways in the ocean to make it that far, but i'm still riding with sea turtle on this one....

Someone had to get rid of their pug :-(

Unquestionably a sea turtle. The tail looks longer because the shell normally covers way more of its ass end.

Male Sea turtle.

2. Adult males have longer, thicker tails, because the male reproductive organ is housed in the base of the tail. In males, the tail may extend beyond the hind flippers.

3. On some species, the claws on the foreflippers of males are elongated and curved, which may help in grasping the females' shells during mating.

Here are your teeth.

http://www.stickyboxbucks.com/afuckinturtle.jpg

See, I have seen dead turtles before... I guess without a shell, the basic body shape is pretty much right, though I would expect to see gashes or areas ripped away where the shell came off. It's really the skin that doesn't seem right. Dead turtle skin doesn't really look like that in my lifetime of experience exploring lakes, rivers, ponds, etc. I guess maybe the saltwater would have done something weird but I just can't see that as a turtle.

Its bloated. It could of had some sort of disease that softened its shell to the point it just pulled away. Or it could of been born shell less. Regardless Im purty sure its a turtle.

Notice its hand... can you say FUCK YOU?

Look, people, it's obviously an infant elephant that was being transported via cargo ship to the Central Park Zoo. This video article shows Mayor Bloomberg specifically citing a financial package for the Central Park Zoo that includes, and he quotes, "a baby elephant" to be purchased and added to their existing lineup of animals.

Case closed, detectives.

That was a dog until someone added the PS

those are not teeth

its part of his "beak"

just because that particular turtle in the diagram has a serrated beak does not mean it has teethe

look how many serrations your pic from the pdf you just googled has. then look at what washed up (see the difference?)


it's a photoshop

A turtle born (would be hatched, actually) without a shell wouldn't last long. There's no way it would have reached that size. They are hatched on the beach and walk down to the ocean. Tons of them get eaten before they make it, one without a shell wouldn't stand a chance.

It's Gary Busey's career.

I see turtles all the time fishing in the Atlantic. I have accidentally caught and released them. I have eaten fresh water as well as Gopher land turtles and have cleaned them. There is no way to remove a turtle shell clean like that. It's not how it works.

Here is a dead Sea Turtle washed up on the beach that I took a picture of. See the difference? That thing on the beach is a photo shop!

http://www.bikinivoyeur.com/turtle.jpg

http://www.bikinivoyeur.com/turtle.jpg

Sticky, wana put your money where your mouth is?

If you are so sure that is a turtle, let's bet. I can take the photochopped picture right over to the marine institute 5 mins from my house or we can just wait and see what the news sources say.

BV, what you showed is a turtle rotting to the point where you can see its skeleton. That thing that above is a turtle without the shell and hard skin but still intact. I bet if they left it there longer it would look like your pic. A skeleton but without the shell.

so do you want to go on record as it being a turtle? i would be glad to take your money too!

when did gfy become marine detectives lol .. ill believe BV he's the only one to shed some real light about the pic

anyone see it?

100 buxors. Epass.

I would have taken dozens of pixs and carted it home and made a million bucks on Ebay and I am convinced it is a turtle who died and after it decomposed enough it's shell fell apart and the turtle washed up on shore and started to rot even more.

It's a liger - a cross between a lion and a tiger, bred mainly for its skills in magic.

Damn, that is wierd.

Dude, you posted the pics for comparison and you STILL think it's a turtle? LOL... how fucking ridiculous... doesn't even need explanation.

The body on the "monster" is NOTHING like a fucking turtle... open your damn eyes... it has legs and feet like a goddamn dog, not big flappers like a sea turtle...

Compare the front "arms," they don't even bend the same way at the joint!!!

lmao...

Here is the anwser

This is an actual monster, some sort of rodent-like creature with a dinosaur beak. A tipster says that there is "a government animal testing facility very close by in Long Island," but unless the government is trying to design horrible Montauk monsters that will eat IEDs and fart fire at bad Iraqis, we're not sure why they would create such an unthinkable beast. Our guess is that it's viral marketing for something. Ali Lohan's new album perhaps.

http://gawker.com/assets/images/gawk...cture_3_08.png

http://gawker.com/5030531/dead-monst...age=2#c6940408

What kind of an angry jew cat are you? Pig's ain't kosher!

It's not a turtle. It's a dog. Look at it. except for the "beak" which is the nose/flesh missing, its obvious its a dog.

You've eaten gopher tortoise? I'm guessing this was a little while back, hows it taste?

gopher turtle yes it is the best! delicious!
and yes this is about 1980'ish

I was in highschool and packed fern after school along with a few older black dudes.
They had a wooden pole with a long flexible steel rod about 3/8 ths inch in diameter and they would bend a hook in the end about 2 inches.

They then would feed the rod down in the gopher hole and hook him under the shell. Lots of rattlesnakes in those holes also. (they live together)

softshell and alligator turtle is also good.

had it in a stew and battered and deep fried cooked by older country black mommas

they are endangered now, but not from people hunting them but from man in general inhabiting their space