A 13-foot-long, horned, ‘sea monster’ washed ashore on Spain’s Luis Siret Beach in the village of Villaricos and has left marine experts baffled.
The creature, which is a silvery white in color, was found by a beachgoer, who reached out to a Civil Protection coordinator, Maria Sanchez.
"We have no idea what it was. It really stank, as it was in the advanced stages of decomposition," Sanchez said, according to NBC.
Sanchez then contacted the Program in Defense of Marine Animals. The experts from the group were confused as to the animal’s identification as well.
According to perth now, this isn’t the first sea monster to wash up onto land. In 1896, a huge creature washed ashore in Florida, but was later determined by scientists to be a new type of giant octopus. In 2003, a 13 ton creature, dubbed the “Chilean blob” washed up in Chile. A DNA test eventually determined it was a sperm whale.
As for the Spanish monster, marine mammal expert Anton Van Heldon thinks it may be a killer whale, while University of Miami shark researcher David Shiffman guesses it’s a thresher shark or an oarfish.
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