Did aliens do this biological experiment? Did people do it?
0Did aliens do this biological experiment? Did people do it?
A mysterious 'alien-like' creature with four limbs and a 'reptilian' skull has washed up on an Australian beach.
Queensland resident Alex Tan was stunned to stumble upon the ruin this week while walking on Maroochydore Beach on Sunshine Beach, about 100km north of Brisbane. Tan said he encountered the creature not long after the flooding hit the area.
"I stumbled upon something weird," he said to the camera in a post on Instagram, adding: "It's like one of those things you see when people claim to have found aliens."
DON'T UNDERSTAND WHAT HAPPENED
The creature, whose identity has yet to be determined, has four limbs, a skull and tail similar to that of a reptilian. There were many comments on Tan's post. Tan said that at first he thought it was an opossum, but was undecided. "I can't wait to find out what happened," Tan told News.com.au.
Some of Tan's followers suggested that it might have been a drowned kangaroo, trying to guess what the creature was. Several social media users urged the animal sitter daughter of Australian legend Steve Irwin to comment for her expert opinion.
COULD IT COME FROM THE DEPTH OF THE OCEAN?
The bodies of land animals that have been at sea for a long time can take on a strange, otherworldly appearance that often makes them difficult to identify. The actions of tides, salt water, and ocean scavengers can disfigure bodies beyond recognition.
And sometimes it surprises people when the normal inhabitants of the ocean depths, which the average person would probably not recognize, wash up on the shore.
California beach-dwellers in May last year were stunned when an all-black creature, whose lower jaw was significantly longer than its upper jaw, had sharp teeth, and a bulb-like structure with a protuberance covered with tentacles protruding from its head, washed up on the shores of San Diego.
Scientists at the Institute of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego soon identified it as a deep-sea Pacific soccer ball fish.
Pacific soccer ball fish are so rare that only 31 specimens have been encountered in the more than a century since their discovery. The Pacific soccer ball is a species of angler fish that normally lives at depths exceeding 900 meters.