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“There was an opening further back on the head where one would suspect the ears, but it might have been the gills.” Ms Jud said she was “surprised” by how big the creature was, with the head being bigger than her fist. “It was gruesome to look at, and reminded me of the reality of death,” she said. “My initial impression was that it was a being who suffered a rather horrible death. I couldn’t figure out what kind of creature it was.”