You inspired me:

Meet Petty Officer Thomas Hendricks. Twenty-six years old. A sailor by profession, a romantic by temperament, and, quite unbeknownst to himself, a man about to make a discovery of considerable scientific importance.

The place: a small island in the North Atlantic. The time: an age in which mankind has grown rather accustomed to the absence of certain things.

But Mr. Hendricks has just spotted something that ought not to be there. And he intends to investigate.

A brief excursion into natural history, with an unscheduled stop... in the Twilight Zone.