What is this thing?

[mad_elaine]

Did anyone see this article about the animal washed up in northern NSW?
Any ideas on what it is?

http://news.ninemsn.com.au/national/812 ... easts-ears

[Mike Williams]

Possum

[Shazzoir]

Yes, I agree with Mike. Possum

[hillbilly]

Clearly most regulars will recognise the North Coast Drop Bear Cub. The Drop Bear, in its juvenile stage, does spend a lot of time at the beach. Attracted to tourist smells, and very inquisitive to see why tourists smell yummier than locals.
What with a couple of king tides, a recent storm or two, and the poor little guy didn't make it home.
Poor little fella.

[Shazzoir]

http://www.coffscoastadvocate.com.au/st ... dentified/

"The unidentified creature that washed up on Diggers Beach in September and was found by Coffs Harbour local Peter Atkinson.

News of the bizarre find had people talking today after the photos appeared in the Coffs Coast Advocate.

By mid afternoon the story had gone national, as vets and mammal experts queued up to inspect the photographs and put forward their own theories.

At first Peter Atkinson and two other men who stumbled across the Critter, thought it was a species of monkey.

Mr Atkinson outright denied the photos were a hoax, as one online forum suggested after the story went viral.

Other readers came forward saying it resembled a sloth or a cuscus, an earless possum found in Northern Queensland and Papua New Guinea.

A parallel was even made to a mysterious creature found in the United States in 2008, known as ‘The Montauk Monster.’

But Taronga Zoo staff say the animal is most likely a brush-tailed possum.

Its vet team and senior curators all agreed it was the corpse of a badly decomposed marsupial.

[Ruby]

Hi Guys,

Here are some nice pics of what it was...

http://cfzaustralia.blogspot.com/2010/1 ... itter.html

A not so run-of-the-mill black colour phase brushtail possum.

Cheers,

R

[Buck]

Erm... A Womble?

[Bow Hunter]

Possum

should of swam between the flags!

[Nikita]

As soon as I saw it I thought possum.