Lord Fairfax, harbinger of doom, after he was found chilling near a residential pond in Alexandria.

Virginia Department of Game and Island Fisheries / Facebook

When future civilizations scour the historical events of 2020 for signs of a coming collapse, they’ll have quite a list to draw from. On that list will be the day that a 65-pound alligator snapping turtle was discovered lumbering around a residential neighborhood in Alexandria.

Tell me this maw doesn’t look to you like a harbinger of doom:

On June 11, the Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries posted on its Facebook account about the giant turtle, which handlers aptly named Lord Fairfax. DGIF received a call from Fairfax Animal Control about the animal hanging out around a residential pond.

“Although the threat to humans was minimal, this animal would have most likely experienced a slow death as a result of either freezing or starvation,” DGIF wrote in its post. The alligator snapping turtle is not native to Virginia and would not easily survive in this habitat, instead coming from rivers that flow into the Gulf of Mexico, east to Georgia and the Florida panhandle, and west to east Texas, per DGIF. (Virginia does have native “common” snapping turtles, which are a quarter the size of an alligator snapping turtle).

Lord Fairfax is a young turtle at just 65 pounds—his species can grow heavier than 200 pounds, and can live to be around 100 years old. He is likely a captive-bred animal, and DGIF implies in its post that his owners likely released him into the “wild” after becoming overwhelmed by his care.

“If you are considering a turtle as a pet, please do your homework first and find out what it takes to provide adequate care for a lifelong commitment,” the organization wrote.

Because he is likely captive-bred, Lord Fairfax can never be returned to the wild. A DGIF biologist picked him up near the pond where he was seen surveying his environs, and the turtle was given to the Virginia Zoo in Norfolk, where he may become part of a new exhibit, per the department.