An alien-like creature with mottled black-and-white tentacles has washed up on a beach in Australia.
A picture of the creature was posted online by a Reddit user who said it was found on the beach in Broome, on the northern coast of WA, by his mother and girlfriend.
The image shows the creature on the sand with dozens of mottled-black tentacles surrounding what appears to be an inflated appendage.
Eventually, a consensus seemed to be reached that the creature was in fact a sea anemone that had been flipped upside down after being beached on the shore.
One wrote: "It looks like dying or dead Crimson Anemone. The black and white color is likely due to illness or death. Otherwise, the patterns are an exact match."
'The armed anemone. Also called the striped anemone,' one commenter said.
The armed anemone is found in the tropical waters off the coast of Western Australia and can grow up to 50cm.
It also has a venemous sting that can be extremely painful to humans and can take months to heal.
One user said; "I've worked with fish tanks for a long time and from accidentally touching small ones, I've had my whole arm go numb."
A picture of the creature was posted online by a Reddit user who said it was found on the beach in Broome, on the northern coast of WA, by his mother and girlfriend.
The image shows the creature on the sand with dozens of mottled-black tentacles surrounding what appears to be an inflated appendage.
Eventually, a consensus seemed to be reached that the creature was in fact a sea anemone that had been flipped upside down after being beached on the shore.
One wrote: "It looks like dying or dead Crimson Anemone. The black and white color is likely due to illness or death. Otherwise, the patterns are an exact match."
'The armed anemone. Also called the striped anemone,' one commenter said.
The armed anemone is found in the tropical waters off the coast of Western Australia and can grow up to 50cm.
It also has a venemous sting that can be extremely painful to humans and can take months to heal.
One user said; "I've worked with fish tanks for a long time and from accidentally touching small ones, I've had my whole arm go numb."
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Source: Reddit, The Sun, Daily Mail
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