WTF is this dead thing?

[Hooli]

Mr GrimNasty said:

Reminds me of a book I once read (was better than the film by the same name, but not much).

I've got that somewhere. Doesn't it concern a photographer who gets half eaten in London sewers & then spends the rest of the book in motorbike leathers breeding them things for skins before throwing lots of hand grenades about?

[Nightmare]

TwigtheWonderkid said:

I had common newts and a great crested in my pond, and that looks nothing like a great crested.

I have lots of both....and that's a dead female I'm pretty positive if it's the size mentioned. They do tend to look a bit less impressive dead......look at the feet and spots specifically

Edited by Nightmare on Sunday 24th August 00:05

[Mr GrimNasty]

Hooli said:

I've got that somewhere. Doesn't it concern a photographer who gets half eaten in London sewers & then spends the rest of the book in motorbike leathers breeding them things for skins before throwing lots of hand grenades about?

Too long ago! Some of it rings true. There were a lot of books like that over a period of a decade or so, probably started with 'The Rats' etc.

[Mr GrimNasty]

Nightmare said:

I have lots of both....and that's a dead female I'm pretty positive if it's the size mentioned. They do tend to look a bit less impressive dead......look at the feet and spots specifically

Edited by Nightmare on Sunday 24th August 00:05

The picture is pretty indistinct on my rubbish screen, but I think you are right. Their appearance does vary a lot depending on sex, time of year, dead or alive, local variations etc.

[Morningside]

Sorry, its a rubbish mobile phone picture anyway! It does have a bright spotted belly. Cannot remember what colour as it's now in the bin.