By Dailymail.com Reporter
Published: 18:14 GMT, 21 February 2019 | Updated: 18:14 GMT, 21 February 2019
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This bizarre looking creature with human-like teeth has alarmed local farmers who discovered it.
A woman working in a rice field, near the town of San Javier, in the north-eastern Argentina province of Santa Fe, saw and photographed the strange creature, which has since been identified as a South American lungfish.
Maria Julia Candotti, who said it was not the first she had seen, said it was a long eel-like body but with wrinkled skin and a mouthful of ugly human-like teeth.
The corpse of the South American lungfish was found in a field in Argentina
The creatures live in swamps and burrow into holes in the mud. They can remain underground for years at a time
Experts later identified it from the photographs as a South American lungfish (epidosiren paradoxa) which can breathe air but is usually found in swamps and slow-moving