Hybrid carp with "human faces"

A Korean newscast reports on a hybrid breed of carp with "human faces." Not exactly human, but helllp-meeee freaky Fly enough to give me the willies. Link (via Neatorama)

[#1 posted by Anonymous , December 29, 2007 2:25 PM]

seaman!

[#2 posted by xiga , December 29, 2007 2:33 PM]

Creepy. Reminds me of the old Dreamcast game 'Seaman'... it was like Nintendogs, but not quite as cute.

[#3 posted by acacia , December 29, 2007 2:51 PM]

Clearly the result of the evil USFK dumping formaldehyde into the Han River.

[#4 posted by hassimir , December 29, 2007 3:16 PM]

Its obviously an advertisement for Seaman that showed up 10 years late. Seriously, look it up, tell me I am wrong.

[#5 posted by EH , December 29, 2007 3:35 PM]

Funnily enough, if you click on the "the horrible contra fish" related video, you'll see a mention of Seaman.

[#6 posted by Tina B , December 29, 2007 3:53 PM]

The pictured fish looks like George Bush with an upside down Einstein cap followed by a Kewpie or manga doll face.

Faces, indeed

[#7 posted by procrastinet , December 29, 2007 5:02 PM]

"Oh sh*t, it's Mr. Creosote!"

[#8 posted by PaulR , December 29, 2007 6:04 PM]

Um, why are these cryptozoological/ufo/ghost videos/images always sooo blurry?

'Cuz they're fake?

http://www.breakthechain.org/exclusives/fishface.html

[#9 posted by Hotnugs , December 29, 2007 6:37 PM]

This is a VERY ugly koi carp (doitsu matsuba variety?) with a deformed head. The nares (nostrils) look like the faces eyes. Add poor lighting and some distortion created by the water and VOILA! A web sensation!

[#10 posted by Steven , December 29, 2007 8:02 PM]

paulr, dudefriend. did you read the page you linked to? because at the bottom, it, in fact, says that the fish in this particular video has been confirmed as real.

spoilsport.

[#11 posted by jbelkin , December 29, 2007 9:33 PM]

didn't our ancestors from way, way, way back come from the sea ... if people eat monkeys, what's the big deal here ... with the face, you know it's fresh. Let's eat!

[#12 posted by gHurley , December 29, 2007 9:55 PM]

Hybrid of what!?

[#13 posted by Agent 86 , December 30, 2007 1:08 AM]

It still has nothing on Man-Bear-Pig!

[#14 posted by PaulR , December 30, 2007 5:02 AM]

I stand corrected.

The in-focus, clear photo from the bottom of my link's page should accompany this article.

But then, the image would lose all its creepiness, I suppose.

[#15 posted by eevee , December 30, 2007 8:30 AM]

Just from looking at the picture, it took me the longest time to see the intended "human" face. Instead, I would see a girl on the fish's back. (Follow the top and bottom edges of the right fin for the top and bottom of her dress, while the top of the left fin points towards her eyes.)

[#16 posted by help i cant comfirm my username themelonbread , December 30, 2007 4:23 PM]

PaulR, a fish with markings that evokes a human face does not deserve your pseudo-skepticism. Images of faces can be found EVERYWHERE in this world by our anthro-centric brains.

[#17 posted by anthropomorphictoast , December 31, 2007 12:50 AM]

I misread 'carp' as 'crap' at first glance. I'm not sure which would be more disturbing.

[#18 posted by erindipity , December 31, 2007 6:23 AM]

@ Procrastinet - I saw the Python as well!

[#19 posted by morehumanthanhuman , December 31, 2007 8:05 AM]

This reminds me of something I saw on Cosmos the other day. Well there is this one species of crab that looks remarkably like a human face, because we superstitious humans did not the ones that looked like they had a human face and threw them back in the sea. So they evolved to look more like human faces.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heikegani

Maybe carp will start looking human-like 1000 years from now.

[#20 posted by erindipity , January 2, 2008 1:33 AM]

weird...