Posted on 11/14/2018 1:43:57 PM PST by ETL
The strange fanged ‘sea creature’ that washed up on a Texas beach in the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey quickly went viral after images were posted on Twitter, but what is it?
Preeti Desai tweeted the images out after discovering the creature on a beach in Texas City earlier this month. “Okay, biology twitter, what the heck is this??,” she wrote.
Her tweet, which was retweeted more than 4,000 times, has garnered more than 10,000 likes.
Desai, who works for the National Audubon Society, told Fox News that she was assessing damage to field sites and habitats in the aftermath of the hurricane when she made the gruesome find. “I spotted this a couple yards away. It was completely unexpected, not something that you'd typically see on a beach,” she explained, via email. “I thought it could be something from the deep sea that might have washed onto shore. My main reaction was curiosity; I wanted to figure out what it was.”
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A journalist friend of Desai who works for EarthTouchNews.com reached out to eel expert Kenneth Tighe, a specialist at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History.
Tighe was able to narrow it down to most likely a fangtooth snake-eel, or tusky eel, according to Desai, who said that Ben Frable, collection manager of fishes at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, also came to the same conclusion.
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"Put 'em up, you fangtooth snake-eel !"
Man, I can smell it from here.
Sounds like a mother-in-law.
Tastes like chicken.
looks like a snake that swallowed an opossum.
Prolly came from fukushima japan.....radiation ya know.
Looks like the trash compactor dianoga from Star Wars.
I don’t know what it is, but it ain’t pretty.
Someone needs to photo shop a crowd of small people
standing next to it.
“Someone needs to photo shop a crowd of small people
standing next to it.”
Put it in NOLA guys basket.
Looks like it could be stuffed with ballots for Beto
Another demonrat slipping in to vote.
Slaughter fish? Long way from Skyrim...
2nd ugliest thing I’ve ever seen.
Michelle O. been swimming in Texas recently?
Fangtooth eel, from the abyss.
I bet they would put dat in a gumbo in Louisiana.
Now we know what Hillary looks like without several pounds of make-up.
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