By Tim Binnall
An Australian woman could not believe her eyes when she came across the monstrous remains of a mysterious creature that she initially suspected was a mermaid. The gruesome discovery was reportedly made by Bobbi-Lee Oates in the coastal community of Keppel Sands as she was "driving along the beach looking for a campsite." The search came to a sudden stop when she caught a glimpse of the peculiar remains (seen above) and "we couldn't help but notice how much the skull looked to be in the shape of a human's." Confounded by the curious sight, Oates stopped her car and approached the dead creature, but wound up even more mystified when she got a better look at it.
"It was exactly like a mermaid shape," she marveled, "because it seemed to have a tail or limb of some sort – we were shocked because it looked human to start with." Wanting to document the weird find, an "overwhelmed and surprised" Oates pulled our her cell phone and snapped several photos of the mysterious creature that she thought could be "a miracle new species." And, as one is wont to do in this day and age, she subsequently posted the pictures to social media in the hopes that someone might identify it. Alas, her hopes that the creature was a heretofore unknown animal or a mermaid were dashed when an expert from the Zoological Society of London indicated that it was most likely a "small cetacean," such as a dolphin or porpoise.