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        <div class="text-body"><p>Preeti Desai of the Audubon Society posted the mysterious images of the creature on social media asking the science community to help identify the fanged animal.</p><p>"Okay, biology twitter, what the heck is this?? Found on a beach in Texas City, TX. <a class="twitter-hashtag pretty-link js-nav" dir="ltr" href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/wildlifeid?src=hash" data-query-source="hashtag_click">#wildlifeid</a>," Ms Desai wrote.</p><p><div class="embed embed--image"><img src="https://sl.sbs.com.au/public/image/file/7c797906-dc1e-46f1-9960-ca53ab9a0d62"  alt="The eel-like creature was found by Preet Desai who was asessing the damage of Hurricane Harvey a Texas beach."  title="The eel-like creature was found by Preet Desai who was asessing the damage of Hurricane Harvey a Texas beach."  width="700"  height="520"/><div class="caption">The eel-like creature was found by Preet Desai who was asessing the damage of Hurricane Harvey a Texas beach.</div><div class="attribution">Twitter: @preetalina</div></div></p><p>The thick, serpent-like body and sharp teeth had social media stumped with some suggesting it looked like a creature out of a horror movie.</p><p>After many comments suggesting it was some species of eel, a biologist suggested it was a fangtooth snake-eel, according to the <a href="http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-41256922" target="_blank">BBC</a>.</p><div class="embed embed--twitter-tweet"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><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>— Preeti Desai&#x1F33F; (@preetalina) <a href="https://twitter.com/preetalina/status/905578912348024834">September 6, 2017</a></blockquote><script src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script></div><p>Dr Kenneth Tighe, a biologist and eel specialist, told the BBC it could be a conger or garden eel as "all three of these species occur off Texas and have large fang-like teeth".</p><p>Ms Desai told the BBC she was assessing the damage of Hurricane Harvey when she stumbled upon the eel.<div class="embed embed--image"><img src="https://sl.sbs.com.au/public/image/file/d069b3f8-c0a6-494c-96da-1e19779e0224"  alt="The eel-like creature was found by Preet Desai who was asessing the damage of Hurricane Harvey a Texas beach."  title="The eel-like creature was found by Preet Desai who was asessing the damage of Hurricane Harvey a Texas beach."  width="700"  height="518"/><div class="caption">The eel-like creature was found by Preet Desai who was asessing the damage of Hurricane Harvey a Texas beach.</div><div class="attribution">Twitter: @preetalina</div></div></p><p>"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," she said.</p><p>Fangtooth eels originate off the coast of the East Atlantic and Mediterranean. The eels can grow as long as 120cm and feed of small fish or crustaceans.</p><p>Hurricane Harvey devastated Houston causing severe flooding. The damage is expected to cost between $150 to $180 billion.</p><p><div class="block__container"><div class="label">More news</div><div class="preview__list-wrapper"><div class="preview preview--linear"><div class="preview__wrap"><div class="media-image media-image--1-1 preview__image"><img src="https://sl.sbs.com.au/public/image/file/a595c47a-b67e-4921-9af1-e987432e9664/crop/1x1" alt="Newly arrived Rohingya women wait for their turn to collect building material for their shelters distributed by aid agencies in Bangladesh"/></div><div class="preview__content"><h3 class="headline preview__headline"><a href="/news/un-council-calls-for-immediate-steps-to-end-myanmar-violence" title="UN council calls for 'immediate steps' to end Myanmar violence ">UN council calls for 'immediate steps' to end Myanmar violence </a></h3></div></div></div><div class="preview preview--linear"><div class="preview__wrap"><div class="preview__content"><h3 class="headline preview__headline"><a href="/news/third-melbourne-council-dumps-grossly-insensitive-australia-day" title="Third Melbourne council dumps 'grossly insensitive' Australia Day">Third Melbourne council dumps 'grossly insensitive' Australia Day</a></h3></div></div></div></div></div></p></div>
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