Mysterious 'alien-creature' washes up on beach leaving resident baffled

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A man has been left baffled after discovering the strange remains of an 'alien-like' creature found on a beach. Alex Tan made the bizarre discovery on Sunshine Coast in Australia, leaving him and others bewildered as to what it could be.

The grotesque four-legged specimen is hairless with a bloated body and a long, rat-like tail, the Mirror reports.When it washed up dead, nearly all the flesh on its head had decomposed, exposing a long "reptilian skull".

The Queensland resident shared a video of the mysterious find on Instagram, along with the caption: “I've stumbled across something weird. "This is like one of those things you see when people claim they've found aliens.”He described the creepy find as looking like a "de-haired possum" but added that it was "different to anything" he'd seen before.

Then he added that he thought it looked "extra-terrestrial", reports the Daily Star. Alex then focused the camera on the bloated body, which now dead had big flies all over it, and said "how weird is that?".The Queensland resident then went on to ask his social media followers what they think the animal might be, explaining that he is “genuinely keen to figure out what creature little buddy is.”Some of his followers guessed that the creature may have been a drowned kangaroo or wallaby.A couple of followers invited conservationist and zookeeper Bindi Irwin, the daughter of Aussie legend Steve Irwin, to provide an expert opinion.The bodies of land animals that have been in the sea for an extended period can often take on a strange, otherworldly appearance that makes them hard to identify.The actions of tides, salt water and ocean scavengers can distort the corpses beyond recognition.And sometimes perfectly normal denizens of