A man who has become adept at recognizing these creatures has discovered a beached three-foot-long marine beast in Virginia, US. It resembles a legless crocodile and has buck teeth.
A massive armored marine beast washed up on an uninhabited beach.
While driving across Assateague Island in Virginia, US, Allen Sklar noticed a creature lying still on the beach and promptly drew up to examine it more closely.
It did not take long for it to be recognized as an unusual-looking armored beast with a prehistoric dinosaur origin, rather than a typical fish out of water creature.
According to Newsweek, the three-foot-long beast flaunted an impressive overbite, with its top gnashers visible beneath a prominently pointed nose.
Thankfully, Allen had encountered such bizarre creatures before and was able to serenely capture a photo of what he identified as an Atlantic sturgeon.
According to Allen, the 37-mile-long Assateague Island is where he saw the fish and promptly took many photos of it.
I travel the twelve miles of beach almost one hundred days a year, so I see a lot of stuff that other people don’t,” Allen told Newsweek. After 27 years of driving around the island, I finally saw a sturgeon.
This 37-inch fish is a real dinosaur, he wrote in the Facebook photo description.
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Tо find fооd оn the grоund, it uses fоur whiskers called barbels that are lоcated under its chin. This creature lacks teeth and has a hard, bоny mоuth.
This оne is оn the petite side, but scientists have discоvered them weighing up tо 160 pоunds in the Chesapeake Bay’s waterways and tributaries, and оver a thоusand pоunds in оther regiоns оf the glоbe.
“In 2012, due to their near-extinction due to overfishing, they were listed as an Endangered Species.”
The Atlantic sturgeon, a fish with a long history of evolution, lives in coastal and riverine environments and can reach a length of fourteen feet.