A bizarre-looking rotting sea creature has been found washed up on a coast in Oregon, US.?
Taking to Reddit, Kristine Tillotson posted multiple pictures showing an animal with needle-like teeth, lying dead on a stack of rocks.?Parts of its body are peeling away, as it appears to be decomposing.?
In the caption, Tillotson asked for help in identifying the sea creature. She also mentioned that she came across the animal at Mill Beach in Brookings, Oregon. ?
The pictures show a peculiar sea creature with what looks like the head of a fish and needle-like teeth. Its head seems to be peeling away from the rest of its body, as it appears to be rotten.?
Many Reddit users commented on the photo, speculating as to what it could be.
¡°I think that is called Aaaaagh!!¡± one user commented.? ?
"It¡¯s probably a deep water fish from well offshore that washed in," another user said.?
"Maybe a wolf eel," a third user commented.??
Tillotson told?Newsweek that the?bone collecting group on Reddit has agreed that the bizarre creature is a type of eel called a monkeyface prickleback eel.
"I posted the photo to Reddit in a bone collecting group as well as a marine biologist group and they all agreed it is a type of eel called a monkeyface prickleback eel," Tillotson told Newsweek.?
"I was excited and confused when I first saw it. I love walking the beach to see what washes up whether it's animals or shells. I thought it was super interesting because it didn't look like any fish I'd ever seen, it looked like one of those?deep-sea creatures," she added.?
Earlier in March, 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 creatures 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¡±.? ??
?The mystery behind the weird-looking creature was finally unwrapped and was identified to be a possum.?
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