1. This is a real shark, The Mega Mouth Shark.
It does have very fine small teeth.

Posted at 1:18PM on Jul 31st 2006 by Rich Meyer

2. It's a moray eel.

Posted at 1:33PM on Jul 31st 2006 by Glenn

3. It's an eel.

Posted at 1:51PM on Jul 31st 2006 by Laura

4. The more appropriate question is if it is genuine. Of course its real even if its not what people say it is it exists and is thereore real. (to many philosophy classes anbd one is too many)
Even if it is a digital fake then it has substance as an image created by technology so it is real .....just maybe not genuine

Posted at 1:55PM on Jul 31st 2006 by Royal

5. Not enough gill slits- Not a shark.

Posted at 2:14PM on Jul 31st 2006 by Mark Getzoni

6. Actually that's a profile of Rush Limbaugh

Posted at 2:18PM on Jul 31st 2006 by ray

7. > Even if it is a digital fake then it has substance
> as an image created by technology so it is real
> .....just maybe not genuine

Check out http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/real for the word "real"; one of the definitions is "genuine". By that definition, a "digital fake" would have no substance and would not be "real" or "genuine".

And I'm pretty sure it is a partially-decomposed moray eel.

Posted at 2:20PM on Jul 31st 2006 by Jeff

8. It cannot be a Moray eel , they don't have gills.

Posted at 2:22PM on Jul 31st 2006 by Terrance

9. @ Ray: Best comment this month!

Posted at 2:24PM on Jul 31st 2006 by Willy

10. Looks like a fish that's been sitting out in the sun for a while. But no shark.

Posted at 2:29PM on Jul 31st 2006 by Kavin

11. It appears to a megamouth shark. They are deep sea sharks that are approx. 5 metres long. They have bioluminscent flesh arouond thier mouths that would seem to used to attract small schools of fish to prey on (hence the small teeth) . They were a recent discovery - I think early 80's. They have since recoverd a few live specimens.

Posted at 3:30PM on Jul 31st 2006 by Mike Gerencser

12. r u sure its not a sea turtles head? looks like it..

Posted at 3:33PM on Jul 31st 2006 by me

13. I believe it could be some type of very ugly fish but I don't think it is a shark.

Posted at 3:38PM on Jul 31st 2006 by TAMMY

14. This looks like a zoomed photo of a shriveled-up sardine bathing in the sunshine!
-D. Siapkas

Posted at 3:44PM on Jul 31st 2006 by diana siapkas

15. I looked up a picture of a moray eel, which by the way included two other looking moray eels. This is NOT a moray eel. I looked up the mega mouth shark, which there is only one picture of one taken after which it was tagged and followed for three days. This is NOT a mega mouth shark. I believe it to be some kind of fish. But it looks dead and the skin has loosened up. For all we know it could be just a dead catfish.

Posted at 3:44PM on Jul 31st 2006 by Belinda Geitgey

16. It's a shark alright!
Looks just like my ex wife

Posted at 3:56PM on Jul 31st 2006 by Daniel

17. Its a frill shark Chlamydoselachus anguineus. They are most commonly caught in Japanese waters, but are occasionally taken elsewhere.


BTW. A Megamouth shark look nothing like this.

Posted at 4:50PM on Jul 31st 2006 by Nivag

18. I think it's a Mega Mouth Shark too. They are really very strange looking. They don't look like the average shark.

Posted at 5:02PM on Jul 31st 2006 by Dawn

19. I don't think it's either. Here is a megamouth shark, and here is a Moray eel.

Posted at 5:11PM on Jul 31st 2006 by RPD

20. Holy Mackeral!
I like the ex-wife comment... Yours must have been related to mine!

Posted at 5:22PM on Jul 31st 2006 by Boomer