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  • 2019-12-20 (xsd:date)
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  • Woman turned into fish on wedding day? No, photoshopped image of real fish washed up on US coast in 2007 (en)
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  • An image posted on Facebook in South Africa and Nigeria shows a fish with human legs where the tail should be. This is the picture of a woman who turned to a fish on her wedding day, the caption reads . The post has been shared nearly 5,000 times. The image is clearly a bad photoshop job , and people can’t be turned into fish. But where does the original photo of the fish come from? Long-nose lancetfish Using a reverse image search , Africa Check discovered that the original, unaltered photo is now some 12 years old. It was first published in a 2007 report by the San Francisco Chronicle, a newspaper based in the US state of California, under the headline A ‘wolf of the sea’ washes up near Sea Ranch . The article shows the fish – without human legs – and quotes an expert as identifying it as a long-nose lancetfish . They are wild looking, Carrie Wilson of the US Department of Fish and Game is quoted as saying in the 2007 article . I've see these every so often. They show up on the beach very rarely. No, the photo doesn’t show a woman turned into a fish on her wedding day. It’s a manipulated image, taken from a 2007 news report. – Sam Ancer (en)
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