A mystery creature washed ashore in Cedros last week, with descriptions ranging from the mundane- a bison, to the magical - a unicorn.

Some who saw it suggested it was a rhinoceros, of a narwhal, both animals having a single horn.

The only thing residents were certain about was that the animal which beached near the Cedros Coast Guard Station, had at least one horn.

Quite likely, said the local government councillor for the area Samnarine Teelucksingh, the ’four footed, short tailed, grey coloured animal’, was a bull that was part of the herd roaming the coconut plantations on the South Western peninsula.

Reena Beharry said her daughter saw the thing.

’They say it was a big animal, like a rhino. About a hundred people went down to the beach to see it. Somebody take out the horn’.

Beharry said the vultures were already feasting on the beast and officials from the Siparia Regional Corporation dug a hole on the beach and buried it.