【A Male Friend Who Spins it Around】

Everyone loves a stroll on A Male Friend Who Spins it Aroundthe beach, why else would people mention it so much in dating profiles? Walking hand-in-hand with a loved one, the sea air ruffling your hair, the gentle lapping of the waves -- what could be nicer? Oh, and don't forget the desiccated sea-monster lying on the sand.

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Photographer Preeti Desai got at least one of these things when she was walking on a beach in Texas. Guess which one...

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Let's take a closer look at the lil' buddy.

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What a loveable toothy maw! Desai reached out to aquatic experts on Twitter to help her identify the cutie-pie. The experts contributed rationally enough...

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...for the most part.

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It isn't really an aquatic xenomorph though... right?

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No, don't be silly [laughs nervously].

Although there was a little debate, the consensus seems to be that the creature is a kind of snake-eel, quite possibly a fangtooth snake-eel to be precise, sometimes known as the tusky eel. This is NOTto be confused with the fangtooth moray eel, who looks like this:

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Eel or no, the denizen of the deep has garnered quite a lot of media attention.

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Desai was eager to stress that this creature was not really monstrous in any way, shape or form.

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Disappointing though it is to discover that this creature was not some kind of marine behemoth (how awesome would that be), it's still a cool find.

As long as it doesn't portend the rising from the depths of some Lovecraftian race of mer-beasts, it's pretty neat!

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