Warning: This video isn’t for the faint of heart, especially if you don’t like slimy, slithering creatures.
A man fishing in Georgia witnessed a showdown between a “creature from hell” and a massive watersnake and it’s the stuff of nightmares.
The video, which was posted by the Georgia Department of Natural Resources on Facebook, shows the two creatures fighting near a stream. The Charlotte Observer said the bizarre animal facing off against the watersnake was actually a large eastern hellbender, a massive salamander that looks like a puddle of mud.
“Angler Austin Taylor was trout fishing on the Chattahoochee National Forest in north Georgia this summer when he videoed a large northern watersnake attacking an adult hellbender,” the state department said in the post. “DNR wildlife biologist Thomas Floyd, who leads the agency’s hellbender research, said the interaction isn’t unusual, but seeing it is.”
According to the state department, the eastern hellbender doesn’t have an easy habitat situation due to predators and environmental concerns.
“Eastern hellbenders are plagued by manmade threats such as excessive silt and warming waters in the mountain streams they inhabit,” the state department added. “But it’s easy to forget these big salamanders also face dangers from wild predators.”
It’s unclear which creature won the battle above, but either way, it’s definitely a sight that’s not typically witnessed in the wild.
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