| | Fisherman claims discovery of bizarre creature with smiling face and strange teeth has prompted investigation
Two hunters claim they have unearthed a bizarre creature with a smiling face and strange teeth in Devon.
Sydney Housley, 25, was out working at a wildlife refuge near Devonport when he received a call about a strange face and a mysterious animal with a mouth filled with teeth.
He says he was baffled by the "swag" of the creature but decided to investigate.
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The man's colleagues called him to say they had discovered a "thing with an odd face and weird teeth" in their quarry.
Mr Housley, from Cambridgeshire, has been investigating for the past six years. He told BBC News that he had no idea how the animal ended up there.
Image copyright Sydney Housley
Mr Housley is keen to continue his research into how such creatures ended up as his site has been visited by several.
"A lot of what's going on out there is happening in the deep sea in large gale-force winds. The atmosphere is much thicker, there's more oxygen and you get more air trapped in the water, and it really makes it difficult to spot objects, as the animal wouldn't be able to see its way to it.
"We've been looking down the bottom of the sea for the last 6 years and it's really easy to spot something like this there."
He said the mysterious creature looked like a fish, but wasn't big, he didn't see the legs, and he didn't see a mouth.
Image copyright Sydney Housley
The two men, who have been scouring parts of Devonport since 2011, have seen the animals before, having seen one in 2011.
Sydney says he went to their site again last year when he found the new discovery of the face, and was surprised by what he saw.
Image copyright Sydney Housley
"It's really hard to say just how it happened because the area where it is there, there's only one site and that's the one you're looking for," he told BBC News.
"I looked at some areas there before that were relatively flat and had a couple of lakes so I could see it. It's quite a strange thing, as it's the only one I've seen before."
"But at the moment, no one has a good explanation for that other than it's the strangest thing I've ever seen before."
Nepal one month after the earthquake struck
8.6 percent of Nepal's population is under 10 years of age; 80 percent are under 15 years old
70 percent live in urban areas
The country's capital, Kathmandu, suffered damage after a 7.8 magnitude earthquake killed nearly 10,000 people in May 2011. The earthquake caused thousands of people to flee Nepal but thousands of homes, schools and hospitals are still standing. The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is currently on standby to help rebuild.
According to statistics published by the Nepal Information Ministry on June 7, 6,500 houses have been destroyed and some 2.1 million people have been displaced, as of June 8, 2011. The quake killed 549 and left 7,622 injured, causing an estimated 9.3 million people to be displaced across the country.
Nepal is also experiencing an influx of displaced people. According to statistics made available by the ICRC on June 3, the total population of Nepal is approximately 18.5 million.
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