{"id":199951,"date":"2025-10-14T18:05:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T18:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/199951\/"},"modified":"2025-10-14T18:05:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T18:05:10","slug":"critically-endangered-sea-creature-rescued-after-being-washed-up-on-scots-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/199951\/","title":{"rendered":"Critically endangered sea creature rescued after being washed up on Scots beach"},"content":{"rendered":"

Flapper skates are given policy protection under the National Marine Plan.<\/p>\n

A critically endangered sea<\/a> creature was saved by local heroes after it washed up on a beach in Angus.<\/p>\n

Dog walker Vicky Whitecross was on Montrose<\/a> Beach on October 13 when she spotted a Flapper Skate marooned on the shore.<\/p>\n

The native Scottish fish, which resembles a stingray, can grow up to 2.8m long and they usually stay at around 100m deep in the ocean.<\/p>\n

Flapper skates are given policy protection under the National Marine Plan due to being an endangered species.<\/a><\/p>\n

\"TheThe huge beasts can be more than 285cm wide.<\/p>\n

Vicky alerted the British Diving and Marine Life Rescue after the fish appeared to be deceased.<\/p>\n

Vicky told the Record: “We were walking along the beach and something out of the ordinary caught my eye.<\/p>\n

“I went over to look and realised it was a skate.<\/p>\n

“I phoned the British Diving and Marine Life Rescue and they agreed to come to help.<\/p>\n

“We kept pouring sea water over it because the tide was heading out and getting further away from the shore.”<\/p>\n

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A marine rescue team dragged the animal back to the sea but it was pronounced dead and hauled ashore for an autopsy.<\/p>\n

As they began to inspect the sex of the creature they realised it was still alive.<\/p>\n

The fish was successfully released into the sea thanks to the efforts of the marine team and locals.<\/p>\n

Vicky added: “The marine team arrived quickly and hauled the fish back to the sea.<\/p>\n

“They worked hard to release it but it showed no sign of life and brought it back ashore for an autopsy.<\/p>\n

“When they were examining the fish it came back to life.<\/p>\n

“It was released into the sea and after hours of effort we got a happy ending.”<\/p>\n

The BDMLR have been approached for comme<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Flapper skates are given policy protection under the National Marine Plan. A critically endangered sea creature was saved…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":199952,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":{"0":"post-199951","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-environment","9":"tag-science","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom","13":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199951\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/199952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}