# What is this creature? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [December 2, 2020, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this-creature/927015 "2020-12-02T15:28:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2020, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this-creature/927015/1 "2020-12-02T15:28:40Z")
There is a picture in this article: [Is it an ALIEN? Bizarre creature with tentacles baffles as it washes up on beach - World News - Mirror Online](https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/alien-bizarre-creature-tentacles-baffles-13766480) ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2020, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this-creature/927015/2 "2020-12-02T15:37:27Z")
It’s a kind of sea anemone. ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2020, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this-creature/927015/3 "2020-12-02T15:47:46Z")
looks like a stomped anemone. . . . 🎼 Stomp! An Anemone, Before you break my heart! 🎵 … 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Babale](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/babale/32/15666_2.png) [@Babale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Babale)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2020, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this-creature/927015/4 "2020-12-02T15:50:33Z")
My God… it’s full of ads. (That site tried to hijack my phone with like a million ads) ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2020, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this-creature/927015/5 "2020-12-02T15:53:49Z")
[It’s been identified](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rze4KFizTe4) as a [striped or armed anemone](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dofleinia_armata) that has been flipped over and bleached. What looks like a mouth is the base. ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2020, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this-creature/927015/6 "2020-12-02T15:55:11Z")
That is the Mirror British tabloid, Use something like uBlock before going to places like that one. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2020, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this-creature/927015/7 "2020-12-02T16:11:51Z")
I apologize for the bad link. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2020, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this-creature/927015/8 "2020-12-02T16:36:56Z")
Every time I’ve seen an article asking if something is an alien, it turns out the answer is “no”. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2020, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this-creature/927015/9 "2020-12-02T16:54:22Z")
Disappointing, that. Pretty often, it’s some dead animal that has become unrecognizable due to being partly decomposed. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2020, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this-creature/927015/10 "2020-12-02T16:55:36Z")
Either that, or a diseased animal. Coyotes that are hairless due to Demodicosis come up pretty often. ---
**Author:** ![TheCuse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thecuse/32/2854_2.png) [@TheCuse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheCuse)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2020, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this-creature/927015/11 "2020-12-02T16:58:06Z")
I’ve found that the answer to many newspaper headline titles with a question mark is usually a no. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2020, 6:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this-creature/927015/12 "2020-12-03T06:47:48Z")
It’s anemone of the people. ---
**Author:** ![Riemann](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/riemann/32/3133_2.png) [@Riemann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Riemann)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2020, 6:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this-creature/927015/13 "2020-12-03T06:51:58Z")
> [@TheCuse](#): > > I’ve found that the answer to many newspaper headline titles with a question mark is usually a no. > **[Betteridge's law of headlines](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headlines)** > > Betteridge's law of headlines is an adage that states: "Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no." It is named after Ian Betteridge, a British technology journalist who wrote about it in 2009, although the principle is much older. It is based on the assumption that if the publishers were confident that the answer was yes, they would have presented it as an assertion; by presenting it as a question, they are not accountable for whether it is correct or not. T The m... ---
**Author:** ![TheCuse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thecuse/32/2854_2.png) [@TheCuse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheCuse)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2020, 11:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this-creature/927015/14 "2020-12-03T11:44:46Z")
^^Thanks. I’ve seen articles similar to that. That’s why I didn’t say always 🙂