I wonder if she was using a digital camera, takes me less than a second to switch over to video mode and start recording, as it stands, meh.
Update: Thanks to Evita for leaving a comment pointing out that officials have concluded that the creature seen in this photo is a snapping turtle.
Interesting...a monster in the CT Reservoir. Na, if she was using a Canon like she had in the news story, that's just a really nice SLR, with no video mode. I hope she can catch that thing again, with a bigger and better lens -- I'd like to see them find out what it is. I'm guessing some funky hippo or something. The spiny things do a good job throwing everyone off.
ReplyDeleteThanks Suzie, nice to know about the camera. Would have been nice to have a video, would be much more conclusive, that said they are interesting photos. What appears to be a red eye seems a little fake to me though.
ReplyDeleteThe spine looks crocodilian but weirdly there appears to be a bit at the front that resembles a hippo's ear! Interesting indeed.
ReplyDeleteI live in CT and remember this story. Turns out that it was a turtle dragging a deer carcass in the water. lol. Go figure.
ReplyDeleteThanks for pointing that out Evita, totally missed that one. It's actually more intriguing than some unknown creature we would have never known anything about.
ReplyDeleteTail part of it?
ReplyDeleteLooks like a spine of half eaten animal.
Whatever drags the carcass.
Kinda dont belive a turtle would drag any carcas.
I wouldn't have thought a turtle could do that either, but after seeing the creature shown later on in this video, I can kinda of see it.
ReplyDeleteOh and cool, you can embed vids into comments.
Imagine this: she took pictures of the turtle thinking it was interesting and then said it was some strange creature when her pictures didn't turn out very good (oops, I mean "clear"). I guess she got her 15 minutes... :D
ReplyDeleteIf that. Still a snapping turtle would be cool to see.
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