Comments on: Mystery Fanged Fish in Utah

By: kayla

kayla — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 19:50:08 +0000

it's definately not a trout. could be a musky or a new type of pike.these are the only 2 fish i could think of that had teeth like that or even slightly resembled it.

By: tian

tian — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 00:56:24 +0000

It could be the reincarnation of Joseph Smith, founder of LDS.

By: tripleX

tripleX — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 22:31:42 +0000

I knew goldfish were to sweet to be true. If the conditions are right they turn into Gremlins.

By: alison

alison — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 12:43:45 +0000

In the first picture in the gallery it looks like Flotsam or Jetsam from The Little Mermaid. Just sayin'

By: oezicomix

oezicomix — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 12:00:34 +0000

@semi: the snakehead seems to be having a totally different set of teeth, though:
http://www.columbia.edu/itc/cerc/danoff-burg/invasion_bio/inv_spp_summ /USGS_snakeheadFace0131.jpg

By: xander

xander — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 04:59:51 +0000

although i think my fishly specter had more human-like teeth.

By: xander

xander — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 04:57:48 +0000

This looks like a kind of fish I saw under my dock one time when i was little. I see it weekly in nightmares.

By: empty-minded

empty-minded — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 04:12:15 +0000

Speaking of the monkey in diapers, did you notice the article on the two SWAT officers that brought their children along for a drug raid? What were they thinking?

By: semi

semi — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 03:45:48 +0000

Most probably it's a snakehead, a non-indigenous invasive species that has spread widely across the US due to people dumping them into ponds, etc. Snakeheads can actually crawl for short distances over land to other bodies of water which makes them particularly hard to contain.

They are really ugly too.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Channidae

By: Barbwire

Barbwire — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 03:20:54 +0000

That doesn't look like any trout I ever saw, and looks proportionately too wide to be a muskie.

By: Christophe

Christophe — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 02:55:39 +0000

It's Blinky from the Simpsons!
Uh, wait, no, it's its cousin Fangy

By: CheeseDuck

CheeseDuck — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 00:29:17 +0000

Its just a normal fish that got flattened and then decomposed rapidly.

By: NeuroGirl

NeuroGirl — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 00:09:01 +0000

Apparently news is pretty slow in Utah... the same page has a link to an article entitled "Escaped Monkey In Diaper Chases, Jumps On People In Neighborhood"...

By: oezicomix

oezicomix — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 23:08:28 +0000

too bad you never hear about the follow-up of these stories. i remember several posts here about "new creatures" - but as usual on the inet you never read about what happens afterwards. what was that screeming singing fish from russia again (which they ATE)...?

By: sal

sal — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 22:51:54 +0000

Lovecraft was right. There's no other way to explain this stuff. Seriously, look at this! http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/03/photogalleries/Antarct ica-pictures/index.html

By: bob

bob — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 22:37:55 +0000

I'm here in Utah and when I saw it on the news I too thought "Musky?". That's still my bet, but you'd think that biologists or the DNR or someone would know a Musky when they see one. FWIW though, I think that Muskies aren't one of the fish shown in the Utah fishing guide. I haven't looked since last summer though.

By: jenjen

jenjen — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 22:18:25 +0000

Looks kind of like a muskellunge? Do they live in Utah? Picture this thing frozen and flattened: http://flickr.com/photos/dlyte/236978418/in/set-72157594270954152/

By: Ali S.

Ali S. — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 22:08:19 +0000

Sweet merciful Mumm-Ra! That thing is the scariest fish to come out of a pond ever! :X

By: Thomas

Thomas — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 21:34:28 +0000

That is perhaps the ugliest fish I've ever seen. And that's why I don't trust even medium-sized bodies of water.