Strange animal found dead on the beaches of Queensland in Australia

One strange lifeless animal by appearance “alien” Found, propelled by waves, on a sunny Australian beach South Queensland. The body was found by an Australian boy, Alex Tanwho stunned his features and then shared a video of the animal.

Indeed, judging by the photos, it is difficult to blame him: swollen with waterAnd the No more hair and with totally abstract big skullThe body seems to belong to a completely different animal than we are used to.

“I ran to Something strange – Alex explains in the video – It’s like one of those things you see when people claim they’ve found aliens. The boy then surrounds the creature with flies buzzing above it. “It looks like a hairless opossum, but it’s unlike anything I’ve ever seen,” the term “extraterrestrial” finally bothers us.

But let’s stop science fiction and think Really about the animal he was when he was working free on the Australian continent. There are many clues It can help us identify it though It is not easy to keep track of species accuratelywe can at least exclude several “competitors” by crossing the branches of the tree of life in a kind of “guess who”.

First of all, the presence of developed bones and limbs testifies to this vertebrates “tetrapod” That is, with legs such as reptiles, amphibians, mammals or birds. Let us then analyze the most obvious feature of the discovery, Blanching a large skull by the sea. From the morphology of this structure, the belonging of mammals to the animal can be deduced: the mammalian skull is completely different from the skull of reptiles, birds and amphibians.

there Modified clamp type conformationThis is it Only one window per side Which drains into the orbital fossa due to the disappearance of the postorbital bone. This is a primitive condition found in marsupials and in other orders of ancient mammals, and it tends to disappear in more advanced groups where there is a gradual restoration of the temporal and orbital fossa separation. In short, we find ourselves in front of a corpse marsupial mammal, Which shouldn’t surprise much, judging from where it was found.

kangaroo? Wallaby? A possum? It is difficult to say precisely, but from the size we can begin to exclude kangaroos, which are certainly quite large. The hind legs of kangaroos and wallabies have a special “elongated shape” to favor a peculiar gait. But finally, let’s do one last skull comparison.

opossum skull
in the picture: opossum skull

Unfortunately, the skull of the strange creature appears from the video incomplete in the terminal partbut it is very similar to an opossum.

in short The last word is for those who study these animals and live them every dayAnd, in fact, many users have asked to intervene in an issue Bindi Irwindaughter of the late naturalist Steve IrwinWhich you will certainly have no problem highlighting in the coming days.

That’s why get rid of the “extraterrestrial path”: There are many “exotic” animals that continue to amaze us by exploring our world, beings that are very rare or even completely unknown to science. However, they all share some distinct characteristics: One evolutionary history He states that he has determined their shape and behavior to adapt them to their environment.

If anything, we’ll be lucky enough Facing alien beings from other galaxies, But let’s prepare for something beyond our imaginationEvolution is a unique work of art that does not repeat itself in the same way.

Earl Warner

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