A man stumbled upon what he called an 'alien' creature's corpse during a walk on a beach in Queensland, Australia, sparking hundreds of internet theories about what the strange-looking creature could be.
"I've stumbled across something weird," he said in one of the videos."This is like one of those things you see when people claim that they've found aliens." He told Storyful that the animal had"humanlike hands, long lizard tail, nose like a possum and patches of black fur."
Instagram user Alex Tan filmed a mysterious creature's corpse during a walk in Queensland, Australia. From"mini-Chupa-cabra" to"extinct marsupial," hundreds of Instagram users dropped guesses about what they believed the creature to be. Stephen Johnson, an associate professor at the University of Queensland, told the that the animal was likely a swollen, waterlogged brushtail possum that lost its fur.
"The skull and hindlimb give the clues," he said."The animal was probably washed down into the ocean during the floods."
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