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Lucy John & Kieren Williams

Mystery as decomposing remains of large creature 'without head' washes up on beach

A mysterious creature has washed up on a beach in Wales and no one is quite certain what it is.

From the remains, you can see that a pelvis, vertebrae and flippers appear to make up apart of the grey mass.

It was found on Newport Beach, in Pembrokeshire.

Julie LaTrobe made the discovery of the unidentified animal on Thursday, December 17th, at around 3:15pm, reports Wales Online.

She said: "It was quite a find, we poked at the remains trying to work out what it was for quite a time. It looked like a vertebrae that was the size of my fist.

The large mystery creature that washed up on a Welsh beach (Julie LaTrobe)

"It didn't have a head we could see, but a very definite pelvis and what looked like flippers. It didn't seem like bone, rather cartilage, much paler and softer.

"It made a very interesting culmination to a beautiful wild walk along the estuary."

Whilst no one has definitely identified what the creature could be, a number of people have made suggestions.

Julie LaTrobe discovered the unidentified creature on Thursday December 17th (Julie LaTrobe)

Some suggested that it could be a shark of some sort, or a seal or even a sheep.

Even the organisation British Divers Marine Life couldn't say for sure what the creature was.

The creature has significantly decomposed to an unrecognisable state.

So far, no one has been able to identify the unknown creature (Julie LaTrobe)

However a spokesperson suggested that, based on its location, it was most likely to be a dolphin or a porpoise.

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