{"id":244910,"date":"2025-11-05T07:47:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T07:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/244910\/"},"modified":"2025-11-05T07:47:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T07:47:08","slug":"worthing-dog-walker-finds-huge-sea-creature-on-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/244910\/","title":{"rendered":"Worthing: Dog walker finds &#8216;huge&#8217; sea creature on beach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  Katalina Delaney, 43, was walking her client\u2019s dog along Worthing beach on Sunday, November 2, when she came across something unexpected.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  She described seeing a \u201chuge eel\u201d washed up on the sand.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cI had never seen anything like it before,\u201d she said.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Sussex Wildlife Trust confirmed it was a conger eel &#8211; \u201ca long, scaleless fish, usually grey-blue in colour with a pale golden belly\u201d.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The eels, which can grow up to 2.75 metres in length, are nocturnal and \u201cquite elusive\u201d meaning they are \u201coften not seen\u201d.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  They are more common in the west of the UK, however there are a \u201clarge number\u201d of them living under Brighton\u2019s West Pier.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   width=\"100%\"\/>A conger eel on Worthing beach (Image: Katalina Delaney)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  A spokesman for the trust said: \u201cThe dorsal, tail and anal fins are fused together, creating a complete fringe around the body.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cDuring the day, they hide in holes or crevices on rocky or sandy bottoms, coming out of their hiding places at night to hunt.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Katalina Delaney, 43, was walking her client\u2019s dog along Worthing beach on Sunday, November 2, when she came&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":244911,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":{"0":"post-244910","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-science","9":"tag-uk","10":"tag-united-kingdom","11":"tag-unitedkingdom","12":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244910","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=244910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244910\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/244911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}