It's an alien. It's a winged toad. No, wait, it's a...uh...

Puzzled by the creature in this photo? Don't know what to make of it? That's how park ranger Yufani Olaya felt when he stumbled upon an animal that struck him as some kind of alien. It looked like a squat, pudgy thing with purplish ears sticking out of either side of its head. A long and pointy tongue, also purple-colored, jutted out of its mouth.

But when Olaya, who was inspecting Cerros de Amotape National Park, looked more closely at the creature, he realized that it was just a ground-dwelling cane toad that had caught a bat in its mouth.

Olaya passed the photo on to outdoor adventure company Rainforest Expeditions, which then posted the picture of the enigmatic creature on its website with the caption, "What the heck is going on in this picture?"

Wildlife biologist Phil Torres, who penned the blog post, wrote that he wasn't quite sure how the toad caught the bat.

"We're unsure how common this is, but we do know that this is probably the first photographed record of a cane toad feeding on bat," Torres stated.

One question still remained: how'd the toad, a ground-dwelling animal, get a hold of the flying bat?

Olaya answered by saying that "out of nowhere, the bat just flew directly into the mouth of the toad, which almost seemed to be sitting with its mouth wide open."

According to Grind TV, that's a fact - some bats do feed on the ground, and will sometimes even grab food directly from the dirt.

When Torres asked Olaya if the toad managed to eat the bat, Olaya said no, adding that the bat managed to escape.

"The toad finally gave up and spat it out," Torres stated. "While Olaya at first thought the bat was dead, he said it slowly recovered and was able to fly away. I'm sure it won't make that mistake again."