Wolf Island Sea Creature Washes Up, But What Is It?

A strange-looking sea creature washed up on Wolf Island, a southeast Georgia beach, and was discovered by a boater there.

Jeff Warren was on his boat with his son Friday afternoon when he saw the deceased animal at the Wolf Island National Wildlife Refuge in Golden Isles, Georgia, Action News Jax reported.

Thinking it was probably a dead seal, Warren looked closer and saw that it appeared to havea long neck and looked almost prehistoric, like a “Loch Ness-type thing,” Action News said. 

Action News Jax contacted the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service about what kind of animal it could be, and Director Dan Ashe said some sea animals resemble a Plesiosaur when they decompose. He said the animal was most likely a 30-foot basking shark. 

Twitter users speculated about what the creature could be and whether it was even real. 

Wow does kinda look like a plesiosaurus though it's short a pair of fins.

— Jeff G (@sworrag) March 19, 2018

The guy said it cold be a decomposing shark...which I can kinda see but ehh..the tail resembles a shark and the stomach does have that swell that decomposing animals get...but the fins look newer than the rest of the skin so it could be fake idk

— Jill Wiley (@skwjeb2016) March 19, 2018

Nessie!!!!🐉

— Brooke Gentry♕ (@brookel2013) March 19, 2018

Are DNA tests being done?

— FBL (@FlyBabyLyn) March 19, 2018

That's why I don't go in the ocean

— Jeff Hewitt (@RealDoubleDeuce) March 19, 2018

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