A family was out for walk when they were left baffled after seeing a 'sea monster' washed up on Weston-super-Mare beach. The two-foot-long skeletal remains were found by the family on the high tide mark on the beach.

Lisa Worthington, 42, was the one who discovered the strange 'sea monster' while walking out the family dog with her husband, Peter, and two children. Lisa said they took the two-foot skeleton home so that her 10-year-old son Tyler could show it to his friends.

Tyler was quite fascinated with the skeleton. He wanted to take it to school to show and tell about the discovery.

Lisa said people are coming up with crazy ideas as to what that skeleton could be. "I guess with it being washed up on the beach you would expect it to be a fish or something, but it doesn't look very fishy", affirmed Lisa.

The family has even posted a picture with the new finding on Facebook. Some suggest it could be a lizard and others claim it to be some kind of a large fish or stingray. Marine biologist Steve Simpson is baffled as he has not seen something like this.

Deep sea creature experts think that it could be a skeleton of a thornback ray. Shelby Temple, a professor in Bristol University, thinks the skeleton to be of a thornback ray (Raja clavata). They are very common on muddy/sandy sub-straits around the UK and Europe.