Probably explainable...or perhaps a photoshop...either way I thought I'd come ask...I found it lurking the net.

Looks like a large sea turtle without the shell.

But it has a tail fin it looks like, not feet. Can turtles even leave their shells?

Almost looks like a blow up floaty.

Looks like a dead juvenile Leatherback turtle to me

i believed this is a kind of turtle species...maybe somebody just took away its shells...



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I agree with Tia.. a Sea Turtle without it's shell.

A leatherback does not have a traditional hard shell, and its upper armor conforms closely to the animals body shape. If it were turned over we would probably see its "leatherback" , hence the name.

It's a dead leatherback turtle on its back. That's why you do not see any eyes or shell.

I agree. And like someone said,the shell is most likely removed.

It looks like a sea turtle with its shell pulled off.

How many of these responses is there going to be?

--Jon

A large sea turtle, laying on its back.

Oh I see now

Youre all wrong i know exactly what it is. Its a floater from new orleans

how is it lying on its back? it should be a completely different shape
first thought was a deformed seal...does it say where it was taken?

Looks like some large Turtle without its shell to me.

I just found it as an image on Google when I did a search for "Monstro".

I'm absolutely convinced its a turtle. Check out its "beak". You can see the shape of the mouth. I think it looks slightly deformed and mishapen because its most likely been decaying in the hot sun for hours.

Aren't Sea Turtles shells ATTACHED to their boddies? O.o

http://www.turtles.org/leatherd.htm

http://www.nature.ca/notebooks/english/leathert.htm


Please read people

A turtle ??? are you all blind its a cat !

Interesting facts Indeed.

Well I can say for sure that this Turtle hasn't been shelled, as their is no way naturally for this to happen, and human intervention is somewhat "messy" to say the least


The only logical thing it can be is a Leatherback

It may be a deformed whale. Or it could be a new species. If not that then I don't know. Where did you get the pic from.

Ok, put me down for dead leatherback, on it's back (a dead giveaway is the skin mottling and stream lined appearance of the body). I'd bet the farm on that guess.

Leatherback turtle

definatley looks like a turtle

Yip me too, but has some one taken its shell off, or can you get Turtles like that?

Nope, it's a dead Leatherback turtle laying on its back.


This is why you don't see the shell.


Case closed.

So it is on it's back..

Cheers mate.

I thought it was a seal... anyway awwwwwww, poor baby

Its either a mutation or a good doctored.

It's a dead leatherback turtle on its back. I couldn't think of the name fo awhile, but other responses reminded me. It's DEFINITELY a sea turtle, you can tell by the flippers and the mouth. The way the flippers are hanging tells you that it is on its back. I"m betting the poor thing got washed up on shore lying on its back and died before the tide could wash it back out to sea.

The leatherback hardly has any shell as turtles go and is probably in the stages of losing it completely. I would love to sea one of these alive.

The photo makes sense now!

Looks like a dead decomposing seal to me

Cripes people. One more time: it is very simply a dead leatherback turtle lying on its back. From the state of its underbelly it looks as though it was scavenged a bit either in the water or out. Leatherbacks don't have the hard carapace of other turtles and there is no direct terminus from shell to neck or flippers. No cryptid, no mutant seal... turtle.

Dead Leatherback on its back...The body is bloated..for all you missing shell people, the "shell" of a leatherback cannot be pulled off... the shell canno be pulled of any species of turtle, as anyone who knows about turtles knows the spines is fused to the shell

It's a sea turtle dead, belly side up.

Solved.

I'm gonna disagree with everyone here. I believe it is a leatherback turtle, on it's back... What?

I agree with that. If it was missing it's shell you would be seeing some back bone and some other nasty decaying goodies. lol

Someone already said that.....

A lot of people already said that... I was using my keen sense of sarcasm

Ooooooooooohhhhhh okay...lol Oh oh I know what it is now, it's a pony! lol Just kidding

Its a faking cat are you people blind !

I think i saw something like that on the trailor for...was it DOOM, the video game-turned-movie staring The Rock?

I can kinda see it, except what I can see of the hind portion looks a little weird, mermaid-like. I suppose it could be the angle, or that species just has weird flippers...