Matsuda Posted November 27, 2013 Share Posted November 27, 2013 With all the recent creatures discovered all over the world, Mark Quartiano, also known as Mark the Shark, stands out in the crowd with an 800 pounds rare dinosaur-looking creature fished out of Florida's waters while fishing with a Japanese TV crew.Who would have thought that a massive beast, allegedly from the Mesozoic era, would be caught on the coast of Miami? The creature measured 14 feet (4.26 meters) and weighted an astonishing 800 pounds. The fishermen on the boat had quite the struggle bringing the massive creature on board, fighting for hours with the weird creature.“It was very old. It had barnacles all over it. When we first saw it, we didn't know what is was. It looked really odd … like some kind of dinosaur,” Mark Quartiano told ABC News. The famous fisherman identified the creature as a dactylobatus clarkii, or usually called hookskate fish, a rare species that lives in muddy waters as deep as 1,000 feet (304.8 meters).A specialist from Florida Museum of Natural History, George H. Burgess, said that the creature was actually a roughtailed stingray, officially known as a dasyatis centroura. This kind of creatures grow to a maximum of 660 pounds (300 kg) and present a venomous tail that can easily be fatal. Either way, the picture of Mark and the massive mysterious fish posted on Instagram went viral. Quartiano was really proud of his capture, calling it a once-in-a-life-time event. He said he caught creatures similar to that before but never in that size, this one was massive and visibly old. After admiring it and taking a few photos, Mark released the fish back into the ocean.It seems like more and more weird sea creatures seem to appear lately. First it was the serpent-like oarfish from southern California, then the second oarfish from the same state, followed by a weird arctic monster fished out of the Canadian water, and now Florida's own “dinosaur fish” makes the headlines.Source Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ambrocious Posted November 27, 2013 Share Posted November 27, 2013 (edited) That's strange. I know during this summer time we had TONS of rain here in Colorado, so much that it dug away the bottom portion of the old river bed and roused up some old Notostraca eggs which are considered to be living fossils in this modern day.The eggs can lay dormant for many years, being reactivated by water. When we had all these floods here in Colorado this past Summer, it literally populated a few lakes with these little guys. Prior to the floods, these things were not around in these lakes, they do exist in other lakes, usually in marshlands.This new giant dinosaur like creature may be similar in some way. Ancient sea dwelling creatures could have laid eggs under the sea in a place that got cut off from water via a fissure in the earth's crust where it got trapped deep inside mud. Millions of years later, seismic activity could have cracked open these areas allowing for these thought to be extinct creatures to come back. In the ocean, many things are still yet to be discovered. Edited November 27, 2013 by Ambrocious Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shasi Posted November 28, 2013 Share Posted November 28, 2013 its ugly to see Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yorel Posted November 28, 2013 Share Posted November 28, 2013 It would be interesting to see a picture from the front.Thanks for the news Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dMog Posted November 28, 2013 Share Posted November 28, 2013 at least he let it live Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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