You probably already know that Australia is
known for its terrifying creatures.
It’s almost as if Australia is
trying to kill all Australians, really. They have pythons eating
everything, flying foxes and all kind of bizarre creatures.
However, nothing as bizarre
and scary as this unknown creature that was washed up on an Australian
beach. With a body like a crocodile and a head like a weird-looking
dolphin, it scared the heck out of father Ethan Tipper when the man
stumbled across it at Lake Macquarie in New South Wales.
Since nobody has a clear idea of what the
creature might be like, the photo has split opinion on social media with
some suggesting it could be a large hairtail cutlass fish, while others
believe it was the result of bad photoshop.
However, Australian
Museum fish collector Mark McGrouther has his own idea of what the
creature is. He believes it’s a deceptively large pike eel.
‘I suspect it was caught and discarded by
fisherman who got more than they bargained for when they tried to reel
it in’, Mark McGrouther said.
He also clarified that the
pike eels can grow up to 6ft in length and , in this case, the picture
may have made it appear larger than it is.
Unless of course it’s
not an pike eel, and it’s in fact a new animal that no one knew of its
existence. But hey, what do we know?
