Mysterious giant 'sea monster covered in hair with long tentacle' baffles villagers after washing up on shore

A mysterious giant 'hairy sea monster' has washed up on the eastern coast of Russia - and it has left locals completely baffled.



The hulking 'smelly' carcass appears to have a tail or long tentacle, and tube-like hair or fur.



The ugly chalk-coloured beast - reported to be larger than three men - has “no definite head or eyes”, it was reported.



Locals have speculated that it's a bizarre primeval relic from the deep or an extinct woolly mammoth released from an undersea permafrost grave by the warm summer.



But a marine scientist says it could be part of a whale.