An "alien" with a shark's body washed up on a beach in Australia: it turned out to be a rare fish (3 photos)

The "find" had the body of a shark, but the head and mouth of a stingray. According to scientists, the animal is considered a rare species and is endangered.





The animal looked like a half-shark, half-stingray, completely colored red. The fish had the fins and body of a shark, but the flattened head and mouth of a stingray. The fish was red, and many thought it was blood. The animal had been dead for several hours - it died either in the ocean or on the shore.

Some people thought it was an alien. Many have noted that the creature looks like a shark and a stingray, but in fact it is neither.

According to Leo Guida, a representative of the Australian Marine Conservation Society, this is a fish called Rhynchobatus australiae. This is a fairly rare species that is under great threat of extinction. Its numbers are low, but the fish is quite abundant in Australian waters and can be found throughout the country. This individual has a red color due to numerous bruises.



"Australia is the global lifeboat for this species. They are not threatened in Australian waters, but they are endangered worldwide, including in neighboring Southeast Asia," he said.