Vex on the beach.
Images of the creature – resembling an “alien mermaid” – washed up on an Australian beach have caused a stir online as viewers attempt to guess the identity of the mysterious creature.
The gruesome-looking flotsam first got here to light via a post in Marine biology group on Facebook which is currently all the trend on the Web.
“It was exactly just like the shape of a mermaid,” said Bobbi-lee Oates, 34, of the skeletal stays she got here across while walking along the beach in Keppel Sands, Queensland.
“We were driving along the beach on the lookout for a campsite and we couldn’t help but notice how human the skull looked,” recalls the Australian. “So we immediately stopped pondering what the hell could or not it’s and why does it appear like a human skull?”
The accompanying photos show a seeming ocean enigma that really boasts a dome-shaped humanoid skull and staggered ribs that evoke the alien’s locks in ‘Predator’.
Oates, who estimated the creature to be 6 feet long, described: “It had a human skull with an elongated jaw and a coat just like the colour of a cow or a kangaroo, but hair was missing in lots of places on account of decomposition.”
She continued: “It was exactly like a mermaid shape, but hairy since it appeared to have some sort of tail or limb,” added the horrified girl, who was “shocked” on the human face of the corpse.
Beachcomber said she initially thought she had discovered a “wonderful latest species”.
Hoping to discover the apparent cryptozoological wonder, Oates turned to a commenter on Facebook asking, “I’m wondering if anyone has any idea what it’s or who I could get to to seek out out exactly what it’s.”
Armchair biologists were willing to lend their theories with one statement: “It doesn’t appear like a marine animal. He has a leg. He can be very hairy.
Others wrote, perhaps in jest, that this creature was a “mermaid” or “mermaid”.
“Contact the local policeman who looks like a human,” one viewer suggested.
Nevertheless, some realists have suggested that it was a standard, non-mythological creature. “Looks like a dead seal/sea lion,” postulated one commentator, while one other theorized, “Probably some form of dolphin.”
“The pinnacle is turned back and the muzzle is hidden under the neck,” they wrote.
“Highly opened up, but not quite. I’m nervous the flukes look cut in a straight line.
“It is the carcass of a one-legged kangaroo,” suggested a 3rd.
Meanwhile, animal experts believed the stays belonged to some sort of marine mammal.
“It definitely looks like a baby whale to me,” Rob Deaville, project manager for the UK’s Cetacean Strandings Investigation Program on the Zoological Society of London, theorized after reviewing the photos. “I’m not acquainted with the world or what species are frequently found there, so I can not go any further.”
For Oates, the search continues. “I still have not came upon what it was,” she lamented. “I used to be hoping someone would comment saying what it was, but all of the comments were so different.”
This is not the primary time a Martian beach creature has royally surprised the web.
A South African man caused hysteria among the many web masses in 2022 after photographing what seemed to be aliens emerging from the ocean.