Fooled again!

Well, apparently the alien fish photo I posted yesterday and attributed to the tsunami wasn't true after all. According to Snopes.com, the images themselves are genuine pictures but have nothing to do with the Indian Ocean tsunami. They date from mid-2003 and were taken as part of the NORFANZ voyage, a joint Austrailian-New Zealand research expedition conducted in May-June 2003 to explore deep sea habitats and biodiversity in the Tasman Sea. The photographs can be viewed here on Australia's National Oceans Office web site.

Tsunami-related or not, some of these creatures are simply amazing. And creepy.

Other untruths from the tsunami include the picture of the wave about to break over the city skyline and a satellite photo attributed to the tsunami (it was really a hurricane off the coast of Florida). Snopes.com might be my favorite new website.