Shocking images have emerged showing a ‘rare’ 4ft-long creature that had washed ashore on a Texas beach, despite normally coming from iп rivers.

In the clip, Missio-Spider Reserve research director Jace Tυппek sought to remove the long-browed animal from the wet sand.

The marine expert identified the animal found dead as an American eel.

Eel species grow to be about 5 feet long, but most people see them between 2 and 3 feet long, Tυпell said.

“Eels are quite common in freshwater rivers in Texas, but they are not usually this size. “This is basically the biggest they can get,” he added.

Fishermen sometimes use them as bait, but this opening is so large that they don’t believe it was ever used for that.

It is possible that it was a female that had traveled to the ocean to lay eggs.

Females have up to four million eggs but die tragically afterwards.

However, experts “have no way of knowing how this particular eel died.”

The benches come after a 25-year-old fisherman spoke about what it was like filming a rare humpback whale in British waters.

The rare mammal was discovered by Corsish fisherman Athoпy Rawph and James Taper, who filmed the incredible footage yesterday (January 23) after fishing at 5pm in Carbis Bay, near St Ives.

James told CorwallLive the whale was “twice the size” of his 18ft boat, and surfaced just a meter away from him while he and Athopy were fishing for mackerel.

The guy, who says he has been fishing since he was 15, said the father of the fisherman he spoke to in St Ives had once seen a humpback whale.