Our popular earlier attempt to decide what kind of fish or animal was on an old postcard has a more contemporary recent contender.

A strange looking sea creature of unknown identity washed ashore on Cayman Brac last weekend, reports the Cayman News.

The newspaper indicates that "Layman Scott found the fish while walking along the beach early Sunday morning [January 8, 2006]. It is roughly thirty inches long, more than half of which is a long, eel-like tail attached to a fish body. It has pale pink scales, pectoral fins, a dorsal fin and a small feathery fin on its belly."

I cannot imagine this one will go long unidentified by our Cryptomundo readers.

So what is it folks?

Here’s the photos as published in the Cayman News: