Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water: the BEARSHARKTOPUS!

Bearsharktopus (Thanks, Fipi Lele!)

Update: From the comments --

Dean Putney, September 22, 2009 7:01 AM

Bearsharktopus is from this thread over at Reddit. The second top level comment has the original poster's octopus arm addition.

  • Anonymous

    It’s a result of bears eating salmon with high mercury levels. How do we stop this insanity?

    Too bad the Crocodile Hunter is dead- I’m sure he’d try to make friends with it.

    Or is this from a possible follow up to Creature, that dreadful Jaws sequel with the walking man shark thing?

  • Ribbit

    The original artist has the bearsharktopus on shirts for sale, if you guys are interested.

    http://www.bearsharktopus.com

  • freshacconci

    I bet snopes is going to be inundated with panicky “is this real?” emails soon.

  • Anonymous

    hahaha!…what a nice creature I haven’t met it before. Thanks for the nice shares.

  • jimh

    No unicorn chasers plz, I have a feeling that unicorns are what this thing prefers as part of a balanced breakfast.

  • danlalan

    Doesn’t this belong in the “Synthetic Biology” article?

  • olive

    I rank this tied my favorite animal-combo.

  • Anonymous

    Man, he looks madder than fish grease…

  • olive

    Tied as

    Sorry y’alls.

  • Shelby Davis

    awesome.

  • Cory Doctorow

    Lester @4 FTW

  • Anonymous

    How about Half Sharkalligator Half Man (a new species discovered by Dr. Octagon)..

    link

  • Anonymous

    It is man-bear-pig…I’m super serial batman!

  • DSMVWL THS

    Where’s Sarah Palin in a helicopter with a shotgun when you need her?

  • Anonymous

    I can tell that’s so fake

    • Anonymous

      Are you shitting me? That’s fake? No, no, I just saw it in National Geographic.

  • Anonymous

    Save the bearsharktopus!

  • Anonymous

    FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU

  • Anonymous

    This deservers a movie tie-in!

  • Anonymous

    i hear its diet consists only of the elusive three toed salmoncrabsealmonkey!

  • Anonymous

    I love it. Thought id like to see it fight my Whalebear shark.

  • Anonymous

    Yikes, that’s pretyy knarley!! Cool Photoshop work, I assume.

  • Anonymous

    My hat is off to everyone who realized it was fake. We should round you all up to give you a medal.

  • Anonymous

    Its thousandth edit from the animals with lightsabers site in 5… 4… 3…

  • Anonymous

    Teehee Bearsharktopus

  • Anonymous

    Now this is what I call combat fly fishing.

  • Talia

    I wanna see the bearsharktopus square off against
    this guy

  • Anonymous

    If the gov’t takes over healthcare, senior citizens will be forced to wrestle barktopus. Winners get to live another year. Losers…lose.

    True. read page 47.

  • Anonymous

    I want one for my pool!

  • Dean Putney

    Bearsharktopus is from this thread over at Reddit. The second top level comment has the original poster’s octopus arm addition.

  • Anonymous

    bears can run and climb trees
    sharks can swim and octopuses can sqeeze into tight places were boned unless we learn to fly and fast!

  • Anonymous

    it must be real! it’s on the internet!!!
    right???

  • Anonymous

    Didn’t I see Chuck Norris walking that thing on a leash down the Venice Beach Boardwalk last week?

  • DollsBags

    OK, I am going out on a limb here but would it’s offspring be called a “cubpupfry” hehehe

  • Anonymous

    I remember this beast, boy howdy..
    Raped our women, burned our crops.

    Now my family will starve this Winter.

  • Anonymous

    Does he have insurance?

  • Hagrid

    YIKES! That’s going to give me nightmares!

  • Anonymous

    OMFG. I’m training that thing to not sleep in the bed at night.

  • Brainspore

    @ Anonymous #40:

    As if Chuck Norris would need a leash to make beasts submit to his will.

  • Itsumishi

    Well he’s certainly scarier than a bulldle.

  • Patrick Dodds

    Technically, isn’t he a barktopus?

  • Anonymous

    Yes, but does he fly?

  • Xopher

    Now who leaked this from SyFy? It’s next week’s “ooo, scawwy” Original Movie!

  • Anonymous

    To modify the old joke –

    Two men at the beach are confronted by an angry Bearsharktopus. One man sits calmly, tightening his flippers. The other, incredulous, proclaims, “what are you doing with those flippers, they won’t help you out swim the Bearsharktopus?” He replies, “I don’t have to out swim the Bearsharktopus, I only need out swim you.”

  • dculberson

    I knew no good could come out of a bear holding a shark.

  • Anonymous

    It ate my pitbull!!

  • Anonymous

    My uncle would tear it in pieces!

    http://www.worth1000.com/emailthis.asp?entry=175151

  • Anonymous

    it reminds me of the manbearpig.. only less scarier of course

  • danlalan

    @brainspore

    Of course he didn’t NEED the leash, but Chuck Norris is law-abiding as well as invincible.

  • Anonymous

    Sexy. I’d yiff that all night long.

  • Brainspore

    Chuck Norris isn’t law-abiding. The law is Chuck Norris-abiding.

  • Anonymous

    its totally Fake !! But i appreciate this Work !! :)

  • lectroid

    Bearsharktopus vs Manbearpig!

    FIGHT!

  • Xopher

    *imagines Chuck Norris fighting this thing, losing, and being devoured*

    *smiles quietly to self*

    *walks off humming a merry little tune*

  • Anonymous

    what the fuck ever.

  • Anonymous

    Chuck Norris probably created this thing in a dream and then roundhouse kicked it into reality. No way is it ever defeating him, never mind eating him.

  • Anonymous

    If you showed that to someone 30 years ago they would have crapped their pants!

  • Anonymous

    is that real??

  • Anonymous

    Sorry everybody, didn’t know this creature was one of a kind. My neighbor and I, just returned yesterday. We caught it a couple days ago while on our yearly fishing/survival trip. It was delicious. Thought it strange, but we got hungry. SORRY!!!

  • Lester

    It needs a machete, a drug habit and a disrespect for traditional British values.

  • Anonymous

    Bless his heart.

  • jmullan

    Here, the origin of the Bearsharktopus is described:
    http://www.scribbls.com/outcomes/Bearshark

    Here, the ultimate disposition:
    http://www.scribbls.com/outcomes/hairy_sushi

    Full disclosure: while I am not responsible for those drawings, my best friends run that site and I keep expecting my own drawings to get me fired.