'Grunt and muscle flexed': Visitors filmed unknown creature in Florida lake

The mysterious creature, estimated to be 4,5m long, has been spotted in the water at a city park in Edgewater, Florida, and even the video doesn't help identify the aquatic resident. Miami Herald.

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Joe Tiller says he was on the water with his wife, April, when they captured the "monster" Sept. 9 in the north Indian River at Menard-May Park. Edgewater is located about 100 miles northeast of Orlando. He thought it was a very large manatee, but something was wrong. “It’s not uncommon to see them in these waters,” Tiller said. - This creature looked completely different! He had huge muscles, like the shoulders of a bull! It was like he was rolling his shoulders like a bear underwater! We saw no fur, no head, no arms, no legs.”

Tiller, a boat builder with the Boston Whaler Company, says he has lived in the area for 5 years and has never seen anything like it. He estimated that the creature was between 3,5 and 4,5 meters long - and it "grunted". The sight was so disconcerting, he said, that the couple decided to stay away from the creature as it made its way to a nearby canal. Tiller shared his video on September 9 with the Florida Birds and Wildlife Facebook group and asked for help identifying the creature. Since then, his video has been viewed almost 70 times, but there has never been a clear answer.

Speculation has ranged from a manatee (fighting the tide) to a black bear crossing a river. Others simply called it "scary" and offered no speculation.

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“I can’t find any video online of manatees looking like that with their shoulders back,” Tiller said. “The shoulders were terrifying and very powerful!” I’ve never seen a manatee look or act like this!”

“Our biologists believe it resembles a manatee in shallow water “playing its pectoral muscles,” Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) officials said in an email. “It then moves into deeper waters at the end of the video.” Manatees, also known as “sea cows,” are aquatic mammals native to Florida, and they typically grow to 3 feet and about 450 pounds, according to the FWC.

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However, some of them reach 4m in length and 1500kg, the agency said. Manatees have two flippers on their forelimbs, and "a large, round, flattened paddle-like tail is used for swimming," according to the FWC. Experts say algae grows on their backs and their skin tends to be wrinkled.

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