There seems to be a run of mystery catches at the moment, and this one is no exception. This translated article which has been doing the rounds recently covers the finding of a strange 'walking' fish caught in a stream in Paraguay. "A group of Paraguayan fishermen had quite a surprise when they pulled two green fish out of the San Rafael stream in Asuncion's Zevallos Cue district. One of the specimens had hands and feet. Their surprise was even greater when they noticed that the specimen began walking toward the water after having been set down on the ground, according to Paraguay's El Popular newspaper.

"It's too much. Seeing such things frightens me. We grabbed the net and brought it home, but we don't know what it is," said one of the protagonists of the story to the neighboring country's newspaper."

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Sounds like a lungfish of some kind. Not wholly uncommon.

That thing is kinda cute.

I swear I've seen this picture somewhere before. Is this a new story? :S

looks like a pokemon to me...."Flapshark" water type

I saw the same pic in an email i received together with dozens of pics of other weird sea creatures, stating that the creatures were discovered after the Tsunami of the Indian Ocean

The fish pictured is a Pacific Spookfish (or some very closely related fish) and has nothing to do with the article. I don't know why its pictured.

http://www.amonline.net.au/fishes/fishfact...h/rpacifica.htm

it looks like when you see some loch ness pics it appears that sort of shape ...pretty odd if you ask me :|

hmmm can you purchase those?? HA!

i want a tank full, of course i would make it a comfortable environment

wow thats the craziest thing i have seen today!

Yeah, i seen that pictured fish years ago.
However the fish in the article, that's pretty interesting.

I want to see a picture of the fish in the article. The one in the picture is something else, though

--Jon

I do not know what they caught, but the photo is of a Longnose Chimaeras.


http://www.thejump.net/id/longnose-chimaera.htm

Do they taste good?

Theres bound to millions of creatures like that we dont even know about yet cause weve only discovered 5% of the ocean

Now, exactly why would they post a picture of a completely unrelated fish?

the eyes creep me out. & its poisonus

Interesting. It does look like a small lochness monster type of creature. And it is very cute looking but in a weird way. Are they studying this thing and see what it eats? Fish, snails, or whatever?

The fish in the story sounds liek either a lungfish, catfish, or some kind of frogfish (yes, frogfish).

i want to poke that fish with a stick and see how it walks....
if it can walk like a human, it will amuse me...
weird looking tho

Thats definatley a Longnose Chimera a cartiliginous fish.

I've seen this photo before, but only now it dawns on me...it looks like a pterosaur (sp?)

Interesting.

I don't mean to sound like a downer on my first post, but some of this guesses are very uneducated.

This creature sounds a lot like a Frogfish, Darter, Newt, Salamander or Tripod Fish.

This fish is coming from a river/stream however so it would have to be a highly adapted type of Frogfish because they're from saltwater.