wildlife

It "comes in several colors, like red, white, purple, and yellow." Once washed ashore, you may see "black on the inside of the coral, which is its skeleton."

I DON'T HAVE TIME FOR THIS.

Before you get any joke ideas...it was on my windshield BEFORE I started driving, so it's not like I'm asking you to identify a smashed bug.

Just this weekend - on Saturday to be exact - I was driving back home, and something in what used to be a parking lot of an old abandoned store caught my eye.

No, really, it's a thing. And, we've got pictures to prove it. They've even got SFASU the Squirrel posing! Check it out:

This is the second time in a week that I've come across some form of wildlife in Nacogdoches that I wasn't sure about...

I'm looking for any of our local bird experts out there to tell me what this strange-looking creature is.