evidence: Starting in July 2024, a set of images purportedly showing giant axolotl-like creatures both in a fisherman's boat and underwater circulated on social media. The most popular post featuring the images that Snopes has been able to identify was made on Facebook on July 30, 2024, and, at the time of this writing, had received around 9,600 reactions and 3,300 comments. [...] One aspect pointed out by multiple commenters was the human-like hands visible in one of the three images of the axolotl-like creature, which were seemingly complete with fingernails. One commenter wrote: "AI generated, the axolotl's "hand" on the first picture looks like a human's." Another left a comment reading: "Deffo AI. Look at the left ones 'hands'..." [...] Because the images are inconsistent with basic facts about axolotls and display classic signs of having been AI-generated, we rate the claim that they authentically depict a creature captured by a fisherman as "Fake."