The video cuts off about half way into it but there's enough of it to see. Hope its not a repost..

http://www.metacafe.com/watch/108095/mermaid/

Did you read the comments after the clip? Most say it's some kind of stingray.

That's what it look's like to me.

thats probably a stingray, they look like that when you turn them over.

btw that other video next to this one: Snake Regurgitates Whole Hippo. thats impressive

its not a hippo its a brazilian tapar and that is a ray of some sort on its back

That's one ugly looking sting ray....No offence or anything to it.

Very odd looking.

Definately a stingray lying on its back. You can even see on the tail that the fins are upside-down; they should be sprouting from the dorsal, not ventral, side.

-Pilgrim

lol to suggest this anything but a stingray is stupid.

It's a stingray

Theres been several threads about this. It is a species of marine Skate.

flmnh.ufl.edu

it is actually a Shovel nosed guitar fish or banjo shark..... a member of the ray family

http://www.pacificsites.com/~kjcapfsh/old/...guitarfish.html

also, anyone else think that fella holding the ray looks like del boy????

no doubt a skate

to claim it is a mermaid or anything like that is just stupid.

I agree Bigfoot Does it really matter if it's a shovel or a stingray? To think that mermaids exist is silly

Everything with two slits over a groove is considered a face. Haven't we learned better than that?

Yeah Ithink it is a sting ray also. Or a deformed squid

Its definetly a skate or ray...Skates have been known to have "human-like" faces on them. I have seen people catch these..

I stand corrected.

This is a link to a pdf file: Shovel Nosed Guitarfish

Amazing that the site promotes it as a Mermaid. Must be good for the hit count.

Damn ugly, think I'd prefer to snuggle with a dugong.

Howdy folks...

Sorry it's just a Shovelnosed Ray, AKA Devil fish...



http://www.sealifegifts.net/DEVIL-FISH-826.html


These types of pics have been posted all over the net as anything from Aliens to Mermaids ( first I've heard on the Mermaids though )...

Nothing more than a Ray folks....

It's a skate or a ray, all right, and let the inquiring among us examine the family known as chimeras, a close relative to the shark and ray species.
Very odd, but well known and completely natural.

is it just me or does that look like what the aliens look like on invasion? XD that's cool looking. haha, catch one, painting glowing yellow and send it to the director of invasion with a little not that says "here's your alien!"

my first impression was a deformed shark or maybe in the shark family.