Tuesday, January 13, 2009

This Week's Edition of WHAT IS IT?





According to Cryptomundo, the photo shown above is the talk of countless French and Spanish-speaking blogs. It was taken in Argentina by a man named Fabian Romano, and it shows what some believe to be a strange bird-like creature. Or, as the curator of the Provincial Museum put it, “a carnivorous mammal with wings, an unknown species.”

Supposedly there are more pictures of the creature. (If so, I can't find them online.) And there may be other eyewitnesses. The experts at Cryptomundo remain skeptical, of course. (How, they ask, can anyone know it's carnivorous by simply examining a blurry photo?)

What do you think? Read more here.

27 comments:

KieL said...

OMG FLYING MONKEYS ARE....

REAL!!

please Kirsten, say it isnt so!!! :O

Ren (All By MySHELF) said...

Looks kind of like a flying lizard thingy or a giant mosquito.

Anonymous said...

Looks like a dinosaur. Photoshop?

Irregular Kiki said...

It looks like a rubber monkey!

Isabela said...

I believe it's just a toy in a blurred picture.

Random Irregular said...

I don't know what to think of this.

Irregular Kiki: It might be. Monkeys do have thin, long arms.

Kitty said...

But then again, humming birds don't have legs right? O-o

Kitty said...

I think it's some sorta humming bird thingy... See the wings beating really fast?

Hidden said...

psh. its so blurry you couldnt even tell if it was a hellicopter...

spiffy said...

Why is it always Argentina with weird creatures? First gnomes, now this.

As to what it may be, i'm not sure. I a lot like a dinosaur.

Orchid said...

It looks like a stuffed monkey hanging from the nose of a plane.

Rachel Maria said...

It reminds me of a wasp... kind of... but it could always be a man-eating flying crocodile bird that lives in public toilets. You never know. :D

sleeping aliens said...

it kinda looks like it has a duck's bill. Pretty colors though!

eternal espionage said...

what's behind it... an airplane?

Zodiac girls said...

looks like a dragon! Wheres Eragon when you need a dragon rider?

IDHSCB said...

Looks like a grasshopper getting blurred. "Hi Mom, I'm on the human news!"

I dunno. I is too blurred.

GDSTRSHSTRHGTR said...

IT LOOKS LIKE A MONKEY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! A PLAIN, NONFLYING MONKEY!!!!!!!

Anonymous said...

its probably one of those bald bat thingys

Hazel said...

It could be any kind of bug. With a long shutter speed, you can get all kinds of cool blurry photos, especially up close.

Anonymous said...

Thats no Monkey in sure its a frog, the have long legs and bright colors and when they jump they seem taller

Anonymous said...

*The Cat in the Closet*
I have no idea what that is...it has a duck's bill, frogs legs, and it DOES resemble a flying monkey! But really, do we have to know what it is? Can't it just be a mystery? Something to puzzle over...Puzzle it while you can, the "experts" will probably tell us what it is soon.

dragonball z said...

i think its a grasshopper too

Anonymous said...

maybe its a really colorful Velosorapter!
lol probaly not maybe its photoshoped???

6yearsoldandcute said...

mabe a bird with NO wings!!(that is todiley wicked!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)

Anonymous said...

It looks like one of those toy monkeys that you get at gift shops and have velcro on their hands that a toddler threw out the window.

liltomboyblue said...

Anonymous 1: Actually, your answer is probably the most realistic. (not the photoshop part though) Birds are the clostest to the make up of dinasours than any other animals. It is believed that when the meteor hit earth 1.7 billion years ago, and the sky filled with debris, blocking the sun, the earths temperature droppped catastrofically, bird-like dinasours, animals that could bury themselves in the ground, and some aquatic animals are said to be the few that survived. Birds skeletal frames are very similar to dinosaurs, so it makes sense that some undiscovered (or new) species may resemble one.

totally unrelated: It turns out that whales can live to be about 150. Scientist, while examining a whale that washed up on the shore, found spears imbeded in the whale from about 150 years before they found it. In other words, the whales outlive us. :) and some species of turtles do too.

Anonymous said...

Its my sock Monkey I lost it XDDD