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Source: http://frankwarren.blogspot.com/2006/01 ... -feet.html
I spent a considerable amount of time looking at taxonomic websites of Paraguayan fish (and Amazonian--just in case).
Urls:
http://www.mongabay.com/fish/data/ecosy ... 0River.htm
http://www.amazonian-fish.co.uk/indexgast.html
I couldn't find anything that looked remotely like the fish pictured on theses sites or the web, although admittedly, I just looked at the groups very quickly.
I couldn't find any other news articles on the fish either, except for the link to what appears to be the original source, on the source website, above:
http://www.infobae.com/notas/nota.php?I ... eccion=100
I hope somebody knows how to contact a friendly ichthyologist with sufficient knowledge of South American fish (or possibly extinct fish) to recognize the critter.
At the moment I am entertaining a suspicion that it is either a really good movie prop or the adult or fetus of a known species of bottom feeding, lobed fish. The proboscis is (Jimmy) Durantean in size and suggests that it feeds by snuffling around in mud (ventral mouth, not shown). The sturdy limbs/fins also suggest bottom locomotion.
Hope somebody can solve this mystery, but I am posting this under cryptids because if this thing were well-known it would be all over the public broadcasting systems of the world.
It's definitely a weird bird.
I spent a considerable amount of time looking at taxonomic websites of Paraguayan fish (and Amazonian--just in case).
Urls:
http://www.mongabay.com/fish/data/ecosy ... 0River.htm
http://www.amazonian-fish.co.uk/indexgast.html
I couldn't find anything that looked remotely like the fish pictured on theses sites or the web, although admittedly, I just looked at the groups very quickly.
I couldn't find any other news articles on the fish either, except for the link to what appears to be the original source, on the source website, above:
http://www.infobae.com/notas/nota.php?I ... eccion=100
I hope somebody knows how to contact a friendly ichthyologist with sufficient knowledge of South American fish (or possibly extinct fish) to recognize the critter.
At the moment I am entertaining a suspicion that it is either a really good movie prop or the adult or fetus of a known species of bottom feeding, lobed fish. The proboscis is (Jimmy) Durantean in size and suggests that it feeds by snuffling around in mud (ventral mouth, not shown). The sturdy limbs/fins also suggest bottom locomotion.
Hope somebody can solve this mystery, but I am posting this under cryptids because if this thing were well-known it would be all over the public broadcasting systems of the world.
It's definitely a weird bird.