mutant fish discovered in argentina

[donut104st]

damn....thats one unique fish.........

 

[erk419]

If you were to catch a normal lungfish would it make the screaming sounds and such as this one was described as doing?

 

[HPIZZLE]

If you were to catch a normal lungfish would it make the screaming sounds and such as this one was described as doing?

+1
thats what woulda freaked me out haha. if some friggin fish started screaming and howling while i was reelin it in, i woulda freaked out lol

 

[troubleshootn]

Looks like my mother in law

 

[peewee]

electric eel maybe?

 

[spwd]

Very pretty!!

Steve

 

[andyjs]

Definitely a South American lungfish. The face is somewhat mangled, though. Stories like this come up all the time showing a species that many people have simply never heard of or seen and wild claims are made up about it. I have never heard of a lungfish making any sound, but I don't know that they are incapable of it. Either way, based on the source, they could have said it was speaking fluent Mandarin Chinese and I'd be no more skeptical than I already am.

 

[Ang]

that last picture, sure looks like an Electric Eel to me

 

[dmopar74]

plain and simple, its a lungfish.

 

[Oddball]

Looking at the head structures, it's definitely a poor Lepidosiren paradoxa that had it's head bashed in and suffered wood dowels being inserted into its mouth to hold it's battered jaws apart.