Missio-Arasas Reserve research director Jace Tυппek identified the “rare” four-legged worm-like creature that had washed ashore on a Texas beach as an American eel.

Shocking footage has emerged showing a ‘rare’ 4ft-long creature that had washed up on the shore of a Texas beach – despite normally coming from rivers.

In the clip, Missio-Spider Preserve research director Jace Tυппek attempted to pull the long-browed animal out of 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, Tupell said.

“Eels are fairly common in Texas freshwater rivers, but they don’t typically get this big. This is basically as big as 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 out to the ocean to lay eggs.

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

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

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

The rare mammal was spotted by Corsican 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 breached the surface just a metre away from him as he and Athopy were fishing for mackerel.

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