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</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-feature-caption field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>A mysterious fanged sea creature that washed up on a beach in Texas following Hurricane Harvey has been identified.</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> <p>Preeti Desai found the decaying fish on a beach in Texas City, and asked Twitter for help.</p>
<p>She posted several photos with the caption: "Okay, biology twitter, what the heck is this?"</p>
<p>Her request was passed to biologist and eel specialist Dr Kenneth Tighe, who believes it is a fangtooth snake-eel.</p>
<p>He said it may also be a garden or conger eel, because "all three of these species occur off Texas and have large fang-like teeth".</p>
<p>It is thought that Hurricane Harvey, which brought strong winds and flooding to Texas, could explain why the creature was washed up.</p>
<p>The fangtooth snake-eel, also known as a "tusky" eel, is usually found in waters between 30 and 90 meters deep in the western Atlantic Ocean.</p>
<p>Ms Desai, who was at the beach assessing the damage from the hurricane, told the BBC: "It was completely unexpected, it's not something that you'd typically see on a beach. I thought it could be something from the deep sea that might have washed on to shore."</p>
<p>"My main reaction was curiosity, to figure out what the heck it was," she added.</p>
<p>Ms Desai said she posted the images on Twitter because she knows a lot of scientists use it, and a friend soon responded and contacted Dr Tighe.</p>
<p>"I follow a lot of scientists and researchers. There'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," she said.</p>
<p>She said she left the eel on the beach "to let nature take its course".</p>
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<p><em>Photo by TWITTER/@PREETALINA (Caption: Preeti Desai found the creature on a Texas beach and asked Twitter for help identifying it).</em></p>
 </div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-source-url field-type-link-field field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Source:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">BBC</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-tags field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Tags:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/tags/fanged-creature" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Fanged creature</a></div><div class="field-item odd" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/tags/texas-beach" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Texas beach</a></div><div class="field-item even" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/tags/hurricane-harvey" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Hurricane Harvey</a></div></div></div><div id="disqus_thread"><noscript><p><a href="http://looppacific.disqus.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.loopsamoa.com%2Fglobal-news%2Ffanged-creature-found-texas-beach-after-hurricane-harvey-66482">View the discussion thread.</a></p></noscript></div>  </div>

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