A man in Queensland,?Australia,?was left stunned after coming across an alien-like creature on the beach.
Alex Tan was walking on Maroochydore Beach on the?Sunshine Coast when he laid his eyes on a mysterious creature, which appeared to have four limbs with a reptile-like skull and a tail,?news.com.au reported.?
He said he came across creature only weeks after floods hit the area.??
¡°I¡¯ve stumbled across something weird. This is like one of those things you see when people claim they¡¯ve found aliens, he said in a video posted on? Instagram.?
He said that his spooky discovery looked like ¡°a de-haired possum, but different to anything I've seen,¡± before going on to say he thought it was ¡°extraterrestrial¡±.??
He then turned his camera on the creature, Alex said ¡°how weird is that?¡±
¡°I thought it was a three-metre flatty or something but as I got closer, it looked like a cross between a dog, a possum, a kangaroo and some sort of giant rat,¡± Tan told 7NEWS.com.au.?¡°Maybe something had come along and had a little nibble of it.?I just think it¡¯s some sort of deformed possum."
Tan is also trying to get the attention of Robert and Bindi Irwin, who may be able to help identify ¡°little buddy¡±.?¡°I¡¯m excited to hear what it would be,¡± he added.?
Tan said the creature had been removed when he went back to the beach later that day.??
It¡¯s not the first time social media has been left perplexed by unknown creatures washing ashore. Earlier this month,?a Sydney resident came across a?peculiar-looking thing?while he was out for a jog in the morning.?Harry Hayes was jogging through Marrickville when he saw something 'alien-like'.?
"My gut says it's some kind of embryo but with Covid, World War III, and the floods [going on right now] this could very well be an alien," Hayes said.
Recently, Australia's east coast experienced heavy rain and flooding but the unusual 'creature' wasn't found in a flood zone.?LADbible?contacted the University of Sydney and the University of New South Wales to identify the creature. However, no one has been able to do so till now.? ?
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