A whole lot of things which used to swim or fly. That’s all I got.
Ctenotrishsays
I think that is the skeleton of a pufferfish. The toothy bits become the spikes when the puffer inflates itself with water (or air if the poor thing is being mucked with by tourists).
I’ve looked up puffer fish skeletons, and that’s not one. Everything is interlocked, and when you look at the image full size, there are way too many fins (or wings) to account for one critter.
The absent skull confused me a bit so my first guess was sponge skeleton. But when I saw the second picture the skull was a giveaway.
blfsays
Ok, so it’s an M.C. Escher sculpture of a horse. Almost as nasty as a pea.
Renésays
To me it look like a serious illness. Ossification comes to mind.
wzrd1says
I never saw a puffer fish skeleton before, thanks!
Now, that’s one fish that is *serious* about not getting eaten. ;)
Enlarges to an impractical size, spines and tetrodotoxin. Few other creatures have so many defensive strategies!
jrkrideausays
Missed it completely.
My impression from the first photo was a yeast doughnut with raisins, rolled in dessicated coconut. Clearly I was wrong.
YOB - Ye Olde Blacksmith says
Puffer fish skeleton?
numerobis says
Something that really doesn’t want to get eaten.
Big Boppa says
Puffer fish skeleton minus the skull.
Big Boppa says
But if there were a god, it would be Bill O’Reilly’s luffa.
starskeptic says
It’s a model of the Spindrift from ‘land of the Giants’ made entirely from transitional fossil parts…
blf says
An M.C. Escher sculpture of a pea.
cartomancer says
Donald Trump’s new replacement for the Affordable Care Act?
chigau (ever-elliptical) says
I hope it’s a sculpture made of fish bone ’cause if something shat that out….
Caine says
A whole lot of things which used to swim or fly. That’s all I got.
Ctenotrish says
I think that is the skeleton of a pufferfish. The toothy bits become the spikes when the puffer inflates itself with water (or air if the poor thing is being mucked with by tourists).
dWhisper says
Trump’s sense of ethics.
Poor little things suffocated…
doubter says
Wow. I think I got an owie just from looking at the picture.
Caine says
I’ve looked up puffer fish skeletons, and that’s not one. Everything is interlocked, and when you look at the image full size, there are way too many fins (or wings) to account for one critter.
Caine says
Damn. Eating my own words. Pufferfish it is. With a Carolina Burlington tag on it.
Charly says
The absent skull confused me a bit so my first guess was sponge skeleton. But when I saw the second picture the skull was a giveaway.
blf says
Ok, so it’s an M.C. Escher sculpture of a horse. Almost as nasty as a pea.
René says
To me it look like a serious illness. Ossification comes to mind.
wzrd1 says
I never saw a puffer fish skeleton before, thanks!
Now, that’s one fish that is *serious* about not getting eaten. ;)
Enlarges to an impractical size, spines and tetrodotoxin. Few other creatures have so many defensive strategies!
jrkrideau says
Missed it completely.
My impression from the first photo was a yeast doughnut with raisins, rolled in dessicated coconut. Clearly I was wrong.
Helge says
I thought it was an incomplete sculpture of a fish, made from shark’s teeth.
Marcus Ranum says
Death metal fish needs spikes.