An "alien-like" creature with human lips has washed up on an Australian seashore, footage has revealed.

Native Drew Lambert was on Bondi Seaside on April 5 when he noticed the weird animal among the many particles that had washed ashore.

A video taken by Lambert exhibits the creature mendacity on the seashore. It seems to have large lips, not dissimilar to a people. Nevertheless, its pores and skin appears to be like much like a shark, Lambert advised information and content material supplier Storyful.

A photograph of the creature has been posted to Reddit, the place social media customers have been theorizing what it may very well be.

One consumer mentioned: "I assumed it a ray, however its lacking like, the whole lot."

One other wrote: "Its a ray of some kind that seems to be lacking its fins and tail? It additionally appears to be like bloated, most likely from the decomposition course of."

Coffin Ray Australia
The weird creature washed up on the shore of Bondi Seaside. Drew Lambert through Storyful

Lambert advised Yahoo Information Australia that in the first place he thought it may very well be a "bizarre type on shark," nonetheless he observed the mouth was on the underside of its physique and whereas its pores and skin just isn't dissimilar to a shark, it lacked a dorsal fin.

"[I thought] oh my god, that is bizarre," he advised Yahoo Information Australia. "It regarded prefer it was puckering up for a kiss."

Lambert advised Storyful that though he has lived in Bondi for 20 years, he has by no means seen something much like this explicit creature earlier than.

A supervisor at Sea Life Sydney Aquirum, Laetitia Hannan, later confirmed to Yahoo Information that regardless of its fins and tail being lacking, it should be a coffin ray, a fish native to Australia.

Coffin rays may be present in temperate to tropical seas across the nation. They will sometimes be discovered on sand in shallow bays, nonetheless they'll additionally journey so far as 656 ft under the floor of the water.

Lambert advised Storyful its intestines might have ballooned, giving it its much more uncommon look.

On April 2, Bondi Seaside was fully engulfed in water throughout a extreme storm. The sands fully disappeared as waves slashed the shore.

Report breaking floods have swept throughout New South Wales in current weeks. In some areas, the excessive tides have brought about particles to be carried to the shore from rivers and different our bodies of water. This might have brought about the creature to scrub up on the seashore.

Australia is house to many distinctive and weird animals discovered nowhere else. As Australia was remoted from the remainder of the world for thousands and thousands of years, its wildlife advanced in distinctive methods. This will typically see lifeforms changing into, greater, smaller, or far more specialised than their continental ancestors, the so-called "island rule."

This isn't the one unusual discovery that has been made following the extreme climate.

On the finish of March, Alex Tan was strolling on Maroochydore Seaside in Queensland, Australia, when he got here throughout a weird creature. It had human-like arms and a reptile-type cranium and tail, with patches of black fur.

In a video of the invention, Tan says: "I've stumbled throughout one thing bizarre. That is like a kind of belongings you see when folks declare they've discovered aliens."

Some consultants claimed it may very well be a Brushtail possum, a Wallaby, or a Tree kangaroo.