Weird Animals
Mystery Sea Beast With ‘Angel Wings’ Baffles Locals As It Washes Up On Beach
A mystery sea beast with angelic wings left locals stumped after its decomposing body was found on a US beach.
Kenny Harris, 42, encountered the “gargoyle-like” creature while visiting North Carolina’s Outer Banks with his family.
He said: “I went out for a morning walk alone and from a distance I saw something in the sand.
“As I got closer I saw this dead fish that looked like some scary creature.
“I thought it had wings – it looked like a gargoyle!
“I’m from West Virginia and I visit the Outer Banks twice a year, and I have never seen something like this before.”
When he shared his photos online, many locals were just as stumped as him.
Some said the creature was a mythical chupacabra, others suggested a bat-fish hybrid while several people noted the resemblance to Falkor – the dragon from the 1984 film, The NeverEnding Story.
“I have fished down there for years and I’ve never seen anything like it,” one person commented.
“It’s the result of toxic waste constantly being dumped into our oceans,”
another said.
One more wrote: “It looks like a dementor from Harry Potter!”
Eventually, however, a consensus emerged – Kenny had found an angelshark, a group of sharks classified as critically endangered.
“It was really freaky,” said Kenny.
Angelsharks were once common across the north Atlantic, the Mediterranean and the Black Sea.
But a market for the fish developed in the 1980s and the population dramatically declined.
The specific type of angelshark Kenny encountered may be a Squatina dumeril, also known as the sand devil.
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