A MYSTERIOUS massive creature has washed up on a popular UK beach leaving locals and visitors shocked.
It is unknown which extremely large marine animal this carcass belongs to.
Clayton Boswell/Media WalesThe extraordinarily large corpse of a sea animal washed up on a Welsh beach[/caption]
Clayton Boswell/Media WalesThe large carcass was around four times the size of a car[/caption]
One visitor was shocked to find the remains of what she believed to be a whale washed up on the shore of a Welsh beach on Wednesday morning.
She spotted it on the sands of Cefn Sidan Beach in Pembrey, and it has attracted the attention of both locals and visitors of the popular beach.
Marine experts are expected to examine the creature and try to determine the cause of its death.
Deaths like these have often been linked to being malnourished or pollution in the water, such as plastic waste.
Examination of the creature, whilst a sad find for scientists, provides them opportunity to gain valuable information into the health of marine life in the area.
It has been a shocking find for locals and visitors of Cefn Sidan, which is one of the longest beaches in Wales, popular among families, tourists and walkers.
The discovery of this large marine animal comes after another huge exotic predator washed up on a beach in Scotland.
A dog walker found the body of a snake-like creature on Ardeer beach at the beginning of the year.
It was a shocking find for Louise Joyce, as “the head was no longer on it” and it looked “as its stomach was also missing”.
The creature was ruled out to be a marine species by experts at the UK Cetacean Strandings Investigations Programme.
It was also considered too big to be a native snake.
Chris Newman of the National Centre for Reptile Welfare also thought it was tough to pin down: “It’s difficult to say what species with certainty but it could be a reticulated python.”
Reticulated pythons are the longest snake species in the world, known to prey on humans though attacks are uncommon.
The Scottish SPCA, meanwhile, thought it was an adult boa constrictor, which is native to South America.
In any case, how it ended up in Scotland remains a mystery.
A strange “alien-like” creature was also found at a UK beach by another dog walker.
This was determined to be a “sea mouse” that had washed ashore on a different Wales beach.
The discovery of the six-inch long creature was made at Pensarn Beach, in Conwy.
Sea mice are described to be marine worms that are active predators able to devour prey three times their size.
Whilst they are not a rare species, their sightings on land are infrequent, often being washed ashore during stormy weather or left behind by exceptionally low tides.
AlamyCefn Sidan Sands provides the largest beach in Wales[/caption] Published: [#item_custom_pubDate]
