While it’s not a lost unicorn, this is still pretty unusual: A manatee was spotted swimming in the Appomattox River in Virginia this weekend.

Video taken by young person Cody Beeler shows the marine mammal cruising along in the river near Petersburg, Va. The Associated Press has more.

The Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries says it dispatched an officer to the river on Monday to confirm a sighting, a day after a video of the mammal swimming in the river was posted online. The Appomattox River is a major tributary of the James River.

In the U.S., manatees typically reside in Florida, but sometimes head north if the waters there get too warm. Robert Lee Walker, the agency’s division outreach director, says manatee sightings are uncommon in Virginia, but they’re not unheard of.

The VDGIF confirmed to NBC12 that, yeah, that’s really a manatee in the video.

Here’s more on Florida’s state marine mammal (which is a thing) from Defenders of Wildlife.

Manatees take up residence primarily in Florida’s coastal waters during winter. Some individuals migrate as far north as the Carolinas or as far west as Louisiana in summer. Manatees have swum as far north as Cape Cod, Massachusetts in recent years!