The remains of a mysterious creature similar to a “mermaid” found on a beach baffle the Network

Published:

Jul 15, 2023 23:35 GMT

The body was found by a woman while walking on a beach in the town of Keppel Sands, in Australia.

Images are circulating on social networks that show the skeleton of a strange creature similar to a “siren” which was found in Australia, leaving netizens baffled.

According to local media, the remains were found earlier this month by a woman identified as Bobbi-Lee Oates while walking on a beach in the town of Keppel Sands in the state of Queensland.

Oates explained his confusion at not being able to establish whether the decomposing corpse corresponded to a human or an unknown species. The photographs show an elongated bone structure with a spinal cord and rib cage, as well as a humanoid-looking skull with an elongated jaw.

“It was exactly shaped like a mermaid, but furry, because it seemed to have a tail or a limb of some sort,” he pointed Oates, saying that he was very surprised by the human appearance of the skeleton.

In search of the identity of the remains

The woman turned to social media users for help in identifying the mysterious creature. Some immediately highlighted its human features, while others suggested it was a whale or dolphin after comparing the shape of its skull to those found in museums.

For his part, Rob Deaville, project manager of the Cetacean Stranding Research Program at the Zoological Society of London, commented that the remains resembled those of “a small cetacean”. However, he reiterated that he was not “familiar with the area or the species normally found” in the region where the body was discovered, so he could not be sure of his assumption.

Despite the numerous comments Oates received about her discovery, she declared that the identity of the remains is still a mystery. “I expected someone to comment saying what it was about, but the comments were very different,” Oates said, stressing that none of these convinced her. “It just didn’t seem realistic to me,” he concluded.

A Queensland Police spokesman confirmed that there was no request to investigate the remains of the rare creature, although Oates claimed that he had done so.