Alien critter

[rogue06]

Now for something a bit lighter. Anyone have any idea what this thing might be?

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Source: EXCLUSIVE: Scientists baffled after mysterious "alien" corpse found in Russia

RUSSIAN scientists are said to be baffled by the discovery of a small "alien creature" on the banks of a river near a major nuclear power plant.

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Alien hunters are excited by the creature

Local news reports said the corpse with a "mysterious skull" was found by two residents next to the River Kovashi, on Sunday, in the Russian town of Sosnovy Bor, a town built in 1958 to serve the Leningrad Nuclear Power Plant.

It is said that the locals, who spotted it by chance, initially believed it could be a mutant chicken embroyo that had been discarded.

However, local experts have been so far unable to say what it is.

One researcher was quoted as saying: "It seems that this body is neither fish nor fowl - this creature has a mysterious skull, no neck and wings."

The body was also looked at by experts from the Institute of Biophysics in Krasnoyarsk, who said it was impossible to make a quick identification.

Biologist Yegor Zadereev said: "Extensive studies are needed to determine what kind of creature or organism it is."

It is thought it will be sent to Moscow for further tests.

But Alien investigators are already convinced it is of extra terrestrial origins.

Scott C waring, who edits UFO Sightings Daily, said: "This tiny alien body was found near a river in Russia and has no resemblance to any animal known.

"Russian scientists are confused over what it could be and said they need to wait for the results of the tests, which are probably DNA I assume."



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Others figure that the creature could be a product of teratogenic mutation due to nuclear contamination from the nearby nuclear power plant after all the plant does have a long history of fire accidents and spills and several workers have died at the plant due to various accidents.

But as we all "know" mutated critters found near nuclear power plants have three eyes

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So the only possible answer is of course

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After all it does kinda look like a dead baby Alien

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So anyone want to venture any guesses?

[JardinPrayer]

DNA test results should answer the mystery. I wonder if we'll ever see a follow up story. As for guesses, er, I have none.

[Catholicity]

Its a chicken

[klaus54]

Russkie hoax?

[Jesse]

Well...

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[Sparko]

A dinosaur embryo.

[Cerebrum123]

A dinosaur embryo.

It's a baby Seasquatch.

[seer]

Tassman's offspring?

[JonathanL]

Now that's just inappropriate.









Still made me chuckle a bit.

[rogue06]

A dinosaur embryo.

So you think its a chicken too?

[rogue06]

It's a baby Seasquatch.

According to Sparko you'd be our resident expert on the topic

[seer]

Now that's just inappropriate.

It was a term of endearment!

[tabibito]

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[rogue06]

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That looks a little bit like a frogfish only less ugly

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But they're a type of anglerfish that inhabit tropical and subtropical parts of oceans which, last I heard, Russian rivers near Leningrad/St. Petersburg which is on the Baltic Sea doesn't qualify as.


A type of anglerfish with a large skull is the humpback anglerfish found in the deep parts of tropical and subtropical oceans.
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But I think the problem with identifying it with a fish is that this Russian critter appears to have a limb that ends with talons of some sort

[rogue06]

From a column in the Washington Post:

Source: The ‘alien’ found in a Russian nuclear power plant is not an alien, guys

Someone found a weird, shriveled animal corpse near a Russian nuclear power plant, so now it's an alien. Seriously, Internet?

[Sorry, there probably isn’t life on Rosetta’s comet — even if ‘scientists’ said so]

Adding fuel to the fire, unfortunately, is a Russian biologist. Yegor Zadereev has announced -- quite reasonably -- that he isn't sure what kind of animal the decrepit little creature is. That's really not surprising, because:

1. Not every biologist has encyclopedic knowledge of every organism that might conceivably show up in their town.

2. This little critter has clearly gone through quite a bit of decay, further confusing its physiology.

3. It's even possible, given its proximity to a nuclear power plant, that the organism has radiation-related mutations -- though we'd obviously hope this wouldn't be the case, given the implications that would have for the safety of the plant.

4. Even to a barely-trained eye (read: my eye) it looks fairly embryonic. In other words, it's quite possibly a shriveled up chicken embryo, or something of that nature, and shriveled up embryos are as weird looking as you'd expect.

5. Who knows -- maybe it's a new species! A whopping average of 15,000 new species are discovered each year. Granted, most of these are insects and bacteria and other things more likely to escape notice than a weird winged thing in Russia, but it could happen. And it's a lot more likely than aliens.

[This tiny animal can survive basically anything, including the vacuum of space]

So yes, Zadereev has been quoted as saying that extensive testing will be needed to identify the species. But that does not mean he thinks it's an alien.

And even if he does think it's an alien, he's wrong. If this is our first contact with an extraterrestrial species, I'll eat my hat.

[After 24 years, this man came to a really sad conclusion about the Loch Ness monster]

This happens periodically: Something a little weird is found, scientists are "puzzled" over it, and the conspiracy theorists go nuts. Let me tell you a little secret, friends -- scientists are puzzled by a lot of things. Solving puzzles is basically a scientist's entire job. When a scientist isn't willing to come straight out and say "aha, that thing is definitely a chicken fetus that's been rotting in the water for six weeks" it's just because they're more careful about jumping to assumptions than, say, the people who blog about aliens are.

And if you still want to believe, here's one last reminder -- This happens all the time. "Alien" corpses make international news all the time. Two incidents in particular come to mind.

In 2009, some teenagers in Panama claimed to have found an alien corpse. It was pretty freaky:

...and it was a dead, bloated sloth.

And back in 2003, scientists found a tiny, unusual corpse in the Atacama desert in Chile. What could it possibly be? Definitely an alien. Until the DNA evidence came back showing that it was definitely human -- and probably just suffered from some profound defect.

But DNA evidence actually failed to stop the "definitely an alien" rumors on that little guy, and I'm sure Russia's weird baby chicken won't be any different.


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I remember one such "alien" discovery back in 2008 which stirred up a lot of controversy and became known as the "Montauk Monster"

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But it was subsequently identified as being a raccoon

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