A person stumbled upon what he referred to as an "alien" creature's corpse throughout a stroll on a seashore in Queensland, Australia, final week, sparking a whole bunch of web theories about what the strange-looking creature with the "humanlike arms" and "lengthy lizard tail" may very well be.
Alex Tan initially recorded clips of his encounter with it on March 21 at Maroochydore Seashore, over 60 miles away from Brisbane, based on the social media video service company Storyful. He uploaded movies to his Instagram web page on Tuesday that confirmed the creature laying on the seashore.
"I've stumbled throughout one thing bizarre," he stated in one of many movies. "That is like a kind of stuff you see when individuals declare that they've discovered aliens."
"Appears to be like like a deerhead possum, however totally different than something I've seen," he stated in one other clip.
He instructed Storyful that the animal had "humanlike arms, lengthy lizard tail, nostril like a possum and patches of black fur."
From "mini-Chupa-cabra" to "extinct marsupial," a whole bunch of Instagram customers dropped guesses about what they believed the creature to be. Stephen Johnson, an affiliate professor on the College of Queensland, instructed the Courier Mail that the animal was possible a swollen, waterlogged brushtail possum that misplaced its fur.
"The cranium and hindlimb give the clues," he stated. "The animal was most likely washed down into the ocean in the course of the floods."
Tan didn't instantly reply to CBS Information' request for remark.