According to News 18, a mysterious creature resembling a mermaid or alien was reportedly washed up on the Australian coast on July 5th.

Images of the cryptid were posted to the marine biology Facebook group. User commented on what he thought the skeleton in the photo was, most of them were mermaids, News 18 report.

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“It was just like a mermaid shape,” wrote user Bobby Lee Oates in the post. photo on facebook. “We were driving along the beach in search of a campsite and we couldn’t help but notice the skull’s resemblance to a human being. Immediately stopped the confusion about what it was and why it looked like a human skull.”

The creature, which was reportedly found on a beach in Keppel Sands, Queensland, had a human-like skull and spread ribs. Oates estimated the creature was about six feet long. (Related: Disney doubles down on Little Mermaid portrayal in new cartoon after movie reviews were mixed)

“Its skull was human-shaped, with a long jawline and hair that resembled that of a cow or a kangaroo, but had lost hair in many places due to decay,” Oates said. . “It was shaped very much like a mermaid, but it was hairy because it appeared to have some sort of tail or limbs.”

Oates claimed he thought he had discovered a “miraculous new species” and turned to Facebook to find out what others had made out of the mysterious mammal, The New York Post reported.

“We found this at Keppel Sands, Long Beach, Queensland. Does anyone know what it is or can tell exactly what it is?” I was thinking about it,” Oates wrote in a Facebook post.

“It definitely looks like a small cetacean to me. Rob Deerville, Project Manager for the Association’s UK Whale Stranding Research Programme. He said so after seeing the photo, the media reported.

Oates has yet to receive a definitive answer as to what species the skeleton is.