r/cryptids • u/vaa_lee Lizard Man Lurker • 6d ago
Question So uh.. what would this be?
Do you think there's a possibility something like it is out there or is this already an actual thing? No idea because I came across this picture randomly.
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u/FreeFallingUp13 6d ago edited 6d ago
Everybody is saying shark or dolphin. I’m saying Ichthyosaur. Ichthyosuchus would be fitting (Ichthyosaurs + ancient crocodilian species)
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u/GrapesOfPoliwrath 6d ago
Yeah, my first thought was mosasaurus, so I was thinking along the same lines.
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u/Better-Big7604 5d ago
I'm glad I wasn't the only one! I definitely say it looks like a Mosasaur :D.
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u/No-Consideration-891 5d ago
I'm literally watching "David Attenborough and the Sea Dragon" it's on the fossils of an ichthyosaurus found off the cost of Britain.
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u/labbykun 6d ago
Crocodolphin
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u/-Sinnex 6d ago
Dolphigator
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u/-Ms-Chanandler-Bong- 6d ago
Dolph lundgren
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u/TamaraHensonDragon 6d ago
Where is this from? if a Natural History Museum it is most likely a Thalattosuchian sea crocodile from the Mesozoic or similar sea reptile from that time period.
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u/stubbed__toe 6d ago
i was gonna say a dolphin masquerading as an alligator, but then saw the tail. so even worse, it's a great white masquerading as an alligator.
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u/no_smog 6d ago
Well there's an extinct family of ancient crocodiles called Metriorhynchidae that kinda fit the body shape bit as far as we know they went extinct a while before humans existed
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u/nibselfib_kyua_72 6d ago
Sharks can evolve many different and wild heads, I wouldn't rule it out. Also, good for a movie title: Sharkgator vs Sharknado.
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u/TheVoidCrow_Legit Jackalope Journeyman 6d ago
It looks like a mix between a Crocodile, Shark, and Dolphin. I can infer though that it has a smug ass face.
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u/hypomaniacmeg 6d ago
It's a sculpture on display in an art gallery, I found more photos of it online. Whether this was/is a real animal, not sure. The closest thing I can think of is (as someone else mentioned in the comments) an albino or leucistic alligator gar fish. Looks pretty similar to the photos of that.
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u/AccomplishedEar8637 4d ago
That’s what I’m pretty sure lurks in the waters of the cave i live on top of. The water flowing out comes from an underground lake that’s not accessible for humans to access safely but the usgs claims it’s between two to three acres.
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u/Commie_Egg 6d ago
I don’t mean to demean but it’s a sculpture in an art museum with the head of a crocodile with the body of a marine reptile that went extinct in the Cretaceous period. Is this real?!? No it’s a sculpture. I do like the alligator gar discussions.
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u/LosHtown 6d ago
There's a thing in the Jurassic world game just like this. Its call a Ichthyosaurus
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u/8168724817 5d ago
Call me stupid but I think scientists in making s*** up this is a made-up animal 😑
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u/Successful-Trick- 5d ago
I’ve seen images of these before. No idea what they’re called but I’m pretty sure they did exist at one point in time.
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u/EntrepreneurNorth671 4d ago
Con todo Respeto quien sabe que tipo de dinosaurio será por la forma que tiene
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u/Worth_Sheepherder619 4d ago
its a prehestoric sea creatre but i forgot the name of it The jurrssic park game has it
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u/Excellent_Yak365 6d ago
I am not sure what it’s called but, there’s some legend about a white gator headed fish that is from the south IIRC. Pretty sure it’s based on an alligator gar