On 19 January 2015, a British woman named Zoe Butler tweeted a picture of what she reported was an anomaly she found in a can of tuna. Butler addressed her tweets to UK media outlets the Daily Mail and the Nottingham Post, and her photograph circulated widely after it was reported upon by the press:
In a subsequent 22 January 2015 interview with the local news outlet, Butler claimed she discovered the unidentified creature after opening a can of Princes brand tuna she had purchased at her local Asda supermarket:
"It's got like a spiny tail along the bottom — it's quite grim.
"I dropped the fork, jumped back, screamed a bit and shouted for my nan to come and have a look."
