What the heck is it? After Hurricane Harvey, a mysterious eyeless sea creature with sharp jaws and a tail washes ashore on a Texas beach
Hurricane Harvey didn’t just displace people, it displaced sea creatures too. Last week, Preeti Desai of the National Audobon Society took to Twitter for help identifying a mysterious creature she found washed onto a Texas City beach after Hurricane Harvey. The apparently eyeless dead animal sported a mouth of razor-sharp teeth and a large cylinder-shaped body. View gallery Preeti Desai of the National Audobon Society found a mysterious dead sea creature on a Texas City beach after Hurricane Harvey View gallery ‘My initial thought was it might be a sea lamprey but when I got close I realized there was no way that was what it was, particularly based on the mouth,’ Desai said ‘On first glance it looked like something from the deep sea to me,’ Desai said. ‘My initial thought was it might be a sea lamprey but when I got close I realized there was no way that was what it was, particularly based on the mouth. ‘We squished it around a bit, and even turne...