i dunno anything about gars but i do know that its quite small im studying depth cues atm and it really like 1' probably
River Monsters - Mysterious photo...
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Not a gator gar first off. Second, A green screen was clearly in play here, look at how the fish is positioned and how the substrate in the picture is.
ok i will pare things down a bit...my question is about the unusual nature of the fish itself, not about the special fx used in creating the shot (we know that just about every site and most photographers/editors in mainstream media production do it). --
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I've not dissembled a gar before, but those bones look too big for a fish, even a bony one like a gar, and it almost looks like there is a skull of a mammal sitting in the foreground of the fishes body. Plus the bones seem curved almost at a right angle, whereas a gar is an elongated fish. So either the bones are of a different corpse or the gar ate something big and possibly died from it.
Or gar bones just look totally different than I've seen online and I am over thinking it (or those are sticks sitting on the dead gar and I am mistaking them for bones).. haha.
The scales do look weird but I am assuming they are just popping up from decomposition and exposure to the elements.
Or gar bones just look totally different than I've seen online and I am over thinking it (or those are sticks sitting on the dead gar and I am mistaking them for bones).. haha.
The scales do look weird but I am assuming they are just popping up from decomposition and exposure to the elements.
good eye michael, i had not even paid much attention to the rest of the fish before...i am concentrating on the skull...there are some very good theories so far 
that being said, the one big bone, which appears to be a vertebra, definitely looks too large to have come from that fish. gar vertebra are much more proportional in size to the fish, and there is no way that bone fits into that fish.
the rest of the bones and scales likely come from that fish, as they show typical decomposition patterns. coloration also changes and the scales tend to clear a bit. wow, seems like the photo was doctored even more than we originally thought!--
--solomon
that being said, the one big bone, which appears to be a vertebra, definitely looks too large to have come from that fish. gar vertebra are much more proportional in size to the fish, and there is no way that bone fits into that fish.
the rest of the bones and scales likely come from that fish, as they show typical decomposition patterns. coloration also changes and the scales tend to clear a bit. wow, seems like the photo was doctored even more than we originally thought!--
--solomon
