A bizarre creature has washed up on a beach in California, leaving some convinced it's an alien from another planet. So can you figure out what it actually is?

The sea life appears to be a moray eel, but one that specifically 'looks a little bleached out from being dead,' Tim Daly of the California Department of Fish and Wildlife told SFGATE.

Discovered on the sands on Sunday, October 13, the creature is thought to be a moray eel — usually common in tropical to subtropical seas and often found in shallow waters. Moray eels ...

Beachgoers in Southern California were confused and horrified after a creepy, pale snake-like creature with sharp, jagged teeth washed up onshore last weekend. Photos of the creature have since ...

In this activity, you will decide which type of fish—moray eels or bull sharks—is more closely related to coelacanths. On a separate sheet of paper, draw a coelacanth, bull shark, and moray ...

The reef is mostly made of hard red algae, providing an attractive habitat for marine life such as this moray eel Scientists say a unique reef habitat near the mouth of the Amazon river is under ...

In this activity, you will decide which type of fish—moray eels or bull sharks—is more closely related to coelacanths. On a separate sheet of paper, draw a coelacanth, bull shark, and moray ...

Monaco may be tiny — the principality is smaller than Central Park — but you’ll quickly realize there’s enough to do here to ...

This specimen, which appears to be a moray eel, is common throughout Southern California, Tim Daly, a California Department of Fish and Wildlife spokesperson, told SFGATE. However, this one ...

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