The fanged, faceless sea creature that washed ashore during Harvey has been identified

[T-Bob]

After high winds and heavy rains brought by Hurricane Harvey, a mysterious sea creature with fangs and no face washed up on the shoreline in southeastern Texas — giving the Internet a challenging task: to identify it.

Preeti Desai, social media manager at the National Audubon Society, posted pictures of the critter earlier this month on Twitter, asking, “What the heck is this??”

Find out here: The fanged, faceless sea creature that washed ashore during Harvey has been identified

 

[Seahunter]

Always interesting to see what creatures lurk in the depths of our oceans.

 

[Debi]

That looked sooo big until the second link gave it some perspective!

 

[voodoo_child]

After high winds and heavy rains brought by Hurricane Harvey, a mysterious sea creature with fangs and no face washed up on the shoreline in southeastern Texas — giving the Internet a challenging task: to identify it.
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Preeti Desai, social media manager at the National Audubon Society, posted pictures of the critter earlier this month on Twitter, asking, “What the heck is this??”

Find out here: The fanged, faceless sea creature that washed ashore during Harvey has been identified

Wow...makes me think twice about swimming past the breakers

 

[Taliesin]

It made me think of flukeworm man from the X-Files. That scared the crap outta me when I was a kid.

 

[Lynne]

A Fangedtoorh snake eel. I didn't even know that was a thing. They did say most likely, so they really don't know.