Biologists, academics and social media users were taken aback by an unknown creature, found on the streets of Sydney, Australia.
Ladbible reports that Harry Hayes was jogging on Monday morning when he stumbled upon the creature. The city has been lashed by heavy rainfall in recent days, but the bizarre-looking animal was not found in a flood zone. Instead, it was found through the Marrickville suburb of Sydney.
“My gut says it’s some kind of embryo but with Covid, World War III, and the floods [going on right now] this could very well be an alien,” he said.
Hayes posted a video of the creature on Instagram, from where it has spread to other social media platforms like Twitter. In the video he was seen poking the creature with a stick, but it remains immobile.
News of the weird-looking creature — which many on social media described as an ‘alien’ — began to go viral after Lil Ahenkan, a popular Australian influencer, shared its pic on Instagram. “What is this?” she captioned the pic.
“Shark embryo maybe? Or some other sea creature,” one person speculated. “That’s an alien,” said another.
A cuttlefish embryo, a germinating seed and mutated tadpole were all the possible answers but they were all discarded. When Ladbible reached out to the University of Sydney and the University of New South Wales to identify the creature, none of the academicians were able to identify it either.
