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        <h1 class="entry-title">Mysterious fanged sea creature washes ashore during Hurricane&nbsp;Harvey</h1>
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		<p>TEXAS CITY, Texas – Like a mix between a shark and an earthworm ripped from someone&#8217;s nightmares, the mystery sea creature that washed ashore in Texas during Hurricane Harvey appears to have been identified.</p>
<p>Preeti Desai, social media manager with the National Audubon Society, tweeted photos of the fanged, faceless body after finding it on a beach in Texas City, which lies along the Gulf Coast near Galveston.</p>
<p>Desai posted the photo with the challenge, &#8220;Okay, biology twitter, what the heck is this??&#8221; She also noted that there was a drinking straw in one of her photos, giving people an idea of the creature&#8217;s size.</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">Okay, biology twitter, what the heck is this?? Found on a beach in Texas City, TX. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/wildlifeid?src=hash">#wildlifeid</a> <a href="https://t.co/9IUuuL65qh">pic.twitter.com/9IUuuL65qh</a></p>
<p>&mdash; Preeti Desai🌿 (@preetalina) <a href="https://twitter.com/preetalina/status/905578912348024834">September 6, 2017</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>Answers on Twitter ranged from &#8220;the monsters in &#8216;Tremors'&#8221; to &#8220;mystery alien,&#8221; but there were also plenty of serious guesses.</p>
<p>&#8220;I follow a lot of scientists and researchers,&#8221; <a href="http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-41256922" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Desai told BBC News</a>. &#8220;There&#8217;s such a great community of these folks that are very helpful, especially when it comes to answering questions about the world or identifying animals and plants.&#8221;</p>
<p>The answer finally came from Dr. Kenneth Tighe, a biologist with the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, who believes it is a fangtooth snake-eel, also known as a &#8220;tusky&#8221; eel.</p>
<p>The lack of eyes in Desai&#8217;s photos gave the animal a faceless look, but, according to <a href="https://www.earthtouchnews.com/oceans/oceans/heres-an-id-on-this-fang-toothed-marine-mystery/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Earth Touch News</a>, they had likely dried in the sun as one of the first stages of decomposition.</p>
<p>The fangtooth snake-eel usually lives in burrows roughly 100 to 300 feet below the surface.</p>
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