More real Life Science Fictiony Goodness

[Nedersong]

This is a picture of some sort of previously unknown beastie:

http://gawker.com/5030531/dead-monster-washes-ashore-in-montauk

No, Lizzie Grubman's still alive. 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. Click thru for larger dino-damage.

so what's the deal going on here?

If it's a fake it's really good one.

But I don't think it is a fake.

 

[Timelord79 (he/him)]

Whatever it is, don't panic! A bottle of Head & Shoulders will take care of everything.

 

[farmkid]

One guy in the comments there says it's a turtle without its shell. I might be able to be convinced of that. But, I can't see how a turtle would ever get out of its shell and still have intact skin. Maybe it's some mutant turtle that never grew a shell, but I doubt such a mutant would ever survive.

I really have no idea what it is.

 

[Spaceman Spiff]

Turtles can't come out of their shells because the shell is part of their skeleton. That's why you see the vertebrae in an empty shell.

Since Gawker seems to be the only source, I think it's probably a hoax or viral marketing. Same thing, really.

 

[M'Sharak]

It isn't a turtle. It's El Chupacabra.

It's not just Texas any more.