Can anyone explain what this is?

**Helm** · April 04, 2010, 01:22 PM

They had to go and make it explode, but in the interests of science.

**Phier** · April 04, 2010, 02:18 PM

I'm going with fake and an m80 at the end.

Here is a full video, note the swarming cliff...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_oPxa...eature=related

As a creature it looks plausible, but swarming up a cliff, and being explosive, I would think it would be rather well known if real.

**Elfdude** · April 04, 2010, 08:21 PM

Fake.

They concluded the same thing when stories of the platypus arose but I'm rather certain this is merely a hoax. It looks like something you'd see on japanese tv.

**Helm** · April 05, 2010, 12:30 PM

I thought it may have been a sea cucumber, they're pretty weird looking things and I they may well explode when drinking coke, I wouldn't know.

**rusina** · April 05, 2010, 01:43 PM

Look like one of these:

Spoiler Alert, click show to read:

**Phier** · April 05, 2010, 03:01 PM

Well one thing to look at is the camera work.

VERY clean closeups and then fuzzy handicam from a distance.

**Hounf of Culan** · April 05, 2010, 10:31 PM

How would an animal that explodes itself survive, obviously fake.

**Helm** · April 06, 2010, 11:11 AM

Originally Posted by Hounf of Culan

How would an animal that explodes itself survive, obviously fake.

It's probably not that often that they would get a taste of Coke, if it was real. And there are stranger things lurking at the bottom of the ocean.

**Phier** · April 06, 2010, 11:24 AM

Originally Posted by Helm

It's probably not that often that they would get a taste of Coke, if it was real. And there are stranger things lurking at the bottom of the ocean.

But these were crawling up a high cliff

**Gordon Freynman** · April 06, 2010, 05:09 PM

It's a fake, but a pretty good one. At first glance it looks pretty real, but when you start analyzing it, it becomes obvious that it's a fake. I like the subtle camera shift to the sky so they can cut and swap out the squirting mechanism for the exploding one, then resume recording.

Besides the zipping off the cliff part in the full length video, I can sort of see the plausibility in the creature and it's actions. The squirting could be a defense mechanism, or projectile vomiting, and the exploding could have been a chemical reaction with the cola and whatever might have been in the creature.

**Elfdude** · April 06, 2010, 12:55 AM

Based off of the way the things moved I would say it's fake, add in the camera and it's more fake, the coke initiated high-explosive explosion and the fact jap tv does things like this all the time I would say there's no possibility of it being real. I mean, the video is worse than the one purportedly proving werewolves in Michigan exist.