Dear Steemians, what would you do if you come across this creature on your walk about?
While out on a walk along a Texas City beach, Preeti Desai found a decaying mysterious fanged creature. A good thing she took some photos of the mysterious creature and posted them on her twitter which has gone viral ever since.
In her twitter post on 6 September 2017, Preeti Desai commented: “Okay, biology twitter, what the heck is this?? Found on a beach in Texas City, TX
A biologist and eel specialist Dr Kenneth Tighe, a specialist in amphibians and reptiles at the Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History suspected the animal is a fangtooth snake-eel, A. chauliodus but it could also be a garden or conger eel. "All three of these species occur off Texas and have large fang-like teeth," he told the BBC.
Steven Murawski, of biological oceanography at the University of South Florida St. Petersburg, who looked at Desai's photos of the mysterious eel like creature, commented that: "It is unclear how big the specimen is, and that is important here," Murawski told Live Science in an email. "I'd say tusky eel (Aplatophis chauliodus), but its maximum recorded size is only 815 millimeters (about 32 inches)."
So Dear Steemians, what do you all thing this creature is?
All photos source from: https://twitter.com/preetalina
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