Weird Creature Washes Up on Long Island Beach

[JP]

NEW YORK -- Is it real or just a legend? That's what many are asking after the corpse of a bizarre-looking creature with a dinosaur beak washed up on a Long Island shore this week.
A tipster told Gawker.com that there is "a government animal testing facility very close by" where the creature washed ashore, but government biologists contacted by Hamptons-based Web site Plum said after looking at the pictures that "no such creature exists," according to Gawker.
The woman who took the photo of the creature's corpse on the shore along with two others who claim to have seen the "Montauk Monster" will appear on Plum's Web show to discuss the sighting.

While neighboring towns are abuzz with talk of the creature -- is it a sea turtle? a rodent? a dog? -- no one knows for sure.
Those who claim to have seen it told Newsday they were "shocked and amazed."
And if it were a real animal, one county executive said, it could make some money as an attraction.
'If this could be certified as the Suffolk version of the Loch Ness monster, we'd sell tickets and get a lot of revenue," County Executive Steve Levy told Newsday.

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Um, ew?

 

[The Battousai]

It definitely LOOKS like it could be a dead animal.

 

[bullets]

It's a raccoon.

 

[jaguarr]

It's cute. I bet it was good with children.

jag

 

[Carcharodon]

I hate that they call it the "Montauk Monster." That's the name for the shark that terrorized that area in the early 1900's off-shore and up the Montauk River.

 

[gap5ewl]

I was just looking at this before. Some website says there's an animal testing facillity near there. That thing is strange...

 

[The Lizard]

That beak is just bizarre. Very interesting.

I'd really like to know how big the thing was, however. Not really much of a "monster" if it's the size of a cat.

 

[JP]

Those dots are actually crowds of people, not sand!

 

[Drizzle]

I hate that they call it the "Montauk Monster." That's the name for the shark that terrorized that area in the early 1900's off-shore and up the Montauk River.

Oh noes! Conflict!

That creature is definitely a product of gene splicing. Either that or it's the result of a dog ****ing a turtle.

 

[jaguarr]

That beak is just bizarre. Very interesting.

I'd really like to know how big the thing was, however. Not really much of a "monster" if it's the size of a cat.

DOG LIPS is on his way to Long Island right now to sex up the corpse, so I'm sure we'll get a full report soon enough.

jag

 

[TLH]

What the...crazy. Although these kinds of things do happen once in a while.

 

[The Squirrel]

That is cool!

But looks more like a land animal... how did it get in the water?

 

[The Lizard]

Here's an artist's rendition of a Psittacosaurus, a dog-sized dinosaur from the early Creataceous period...

The feathers are pure conjecture, although fossil imprints seem to show that Psittacosaurus did have some thin spines along its tail.

 

[Mike_D202]

That is WEIRD! I love it.

 

[Drizzle]

In a twisted way, it's kinda cute. Poor little guy.

 

[The Lizard]

First we get the monkey-faced pig born in China, now we've got a parrot-faced cat/dog washed up on the beach in New York.

These are signs, people! The End of Days is coming! The Apocalypse will soon be at hand! Fire and brimstone coming down from the skies! Rivers and seas boiling! Forty years of darkness! Earthquakes and volcanoes! The dead rising from the grave! Human sacrifice! Dogs and cats living together... mass hysteria!!

 

[The Apocalypse]

Probably a mutated rat.

 

[The Apocalypse]

Probably a mutated rat.

 

[jaguarr]

First we get the monkey-faced pig born in China, now we've got a parrot-faced cat/dog washed up on the beach in New York.

These are signs, people! The End of Days is coming! The Apocalypse will soon be at hand! Fire and brimstone coming down from the skies! Rivers and seas boiling! Forty years of darkness! Earthquakes and volcanoes! The dead rising from the grave! Human sacrifice! Dogs and cats living together... mass hysteria!!

Probably a mutated rat.

I'll be damned. You were right, Lizzie!

jag

 

[Asteroid-Man]

Oh my God! It's..It's... THE CLOVERFIELD MONSTER!!! (only the baby version)

 

[bunk]

It's cute. I bet it was good with children.

jag

Hahaha!

Oddly the first thing I noticed; is how it looks like it's in the same pose Han was when he landed on the ground after being thawed out.

"Someone who loves you..."

 

[The Apocalypse]

Oh my God! It's..It's... THE CLOVERFIELD MONSTER!!! (only the baby version)

Don't joke like that, it will happen someday. That thing's mom is probably in the middle of the Atlantic waiting to strike.

 

[The Lizard]

I'll be damned. You were right, Lizzie!

jag

Yeah, I thought that was kind of weird too. Maybe he was just doing a search for his screen name?

 

[AlteredEgo]

Oh my God! It's..It's... THE CLOVERFIELD MONSTER!!! (only the baby version)

 

[The Squirrel]

That's not what it looked like in the movie... is it?