SEE: Nor'easter Washes Up Mysterious Creature On Jersey Shore Beach

Photos by Denise Wirth

The skeletal frame of a mysterious creature appeared on a Toms River beach Wednesday just after the nor’easter hit the Shore this week.

The animal was photographed by Denise Wirth of Lavallette, who snapped pictures of the animal after friends told her about it.

“It looked like something prehistoric,” she said, noting that it was found in a neighborhood known as ”North Lavallette.” “You don’t usually see something wash up like this.”

Virtually all of the animal’s flesh was gone when Wirth spotted it.

Gregg Sakowicz, a Rutgers University research professor, wrote on his “Professor Sak” website that the animal appears to be a “bottlenose dolphin.”

Wirth, noting that the Marine Mammal Stranding Center has been notified, said she assumes the animal was buried first, and was unearthed after big waves pounded the shoreline.

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