Early this week, a mystery marine animal bit a man swimming in the Foster City Lagoon, a 6-foot-deep drainage retention basin in the San Francisco Bay area. The thing is, no one remembers something like this ever happening before. So, what was it?
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Local news reports that the police dispatch call signaled the victim as a 74-year-old male who a witness pulled from the water after he began screaming that something had bitten him. The man apparently believed the mystery animal was a shark.
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However, no one can confirm a shark’s presence in the lagoon. Officials confirmed that the man was bitten “by a small marine animal,” but no one can yet say what it was.
Watch a local news report about the mystery lagoon animal below (or see it here).
This situation is still developing, and details may change.
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