The Montauk Mystery Monster

Mother Nature is one Sick Demented Broad!

The Creature above was found washed up on the shores of Montauk. That is in Long Island, New York for the Geographically Impaired. It looks like some kind of Rodent with a beak. But, it could be a number of things:

1. Secret Government experiment gone wrong
2. A mutant turtle without its Shell
3. A Viral Marketing campaign by the cartoon network
4. An elaborate Hoax to dupe the citizens of L.I. (that's easier done than said)
5. A creature similar to a platypus, which exhibits both bird and mammal characteristics

The Platypus (pictured above) is an anomaly in nature. It is an egg-laying, venemous, milk-producing, duck-billed, beaver-tailed, otter-footed mammal.

Not only is it one of only two Mammal that lays eggs, it is also one of the few mammals in nature which produces venom. (venom is usually reserved for reptiles and insects)

Platypus are a part of the Monotreme family. Monotremes are Egg-Laying Mammals. All of the Monotreme are extinct besides our Friend, Mr. Platypus and an ant-eating creature known as Echidnas (pictured on the left).

But, there are fossil records of two other species that are thought to be Monotreme and closely related to the Platypus by most leading scientists.

One is known as Teinolophos, its fossils were discovered in and around Australia, the same place that Platypus resides today.

The other Monotreme which scientists have fossil records of is called Steropodon and through fossil records, Scientists were able to recreate what the creature might have looked like:

Cute, Ain't it?

There are definitely some similarities between the creature that washed up on the shores of Strong Island and the Steropodon. The creature could be a distant north American relative of platypus. If this creature is in fact real, it could put a whole different spin on how we look at evolution. Scientist have proven that mammals evolved into three distinct groups. Mammals that give birth (Placental), Mammals that have pouches for their young (Marsupials) and the Egg-Laying Mammals (Monotreme). Both Australia and North America are home to Marsupials, the Aussies have Kangaroos and the we have Opossums. Is it impossible for Monotremes to inhabit both Australia and North America? If that creature is in fact a Monotreme, it strengthens the theory that the world was once a single land mass, otherwise known as Pangea.

How else can one explain the existence of both Marsupials and Monotremes in Australia and North America when the two continents are over 10,000 miles away from each other in today's world?

~G9D Contributing Satirist and Womanizer