Ewww...alien!...Ewww..so big...

A mysterious 'alien like' creature horrified holidaymakers after it washed up on a beach on the Gower Peninsula in Wales.

The writhing mass of tentacles, which measured at least 6ft from end to end.

Fears of a UFO invasion were put to rest as scientists revealed it was a seething mass of goose barnacles that was swept up from the depths of the ocean by bad weather.The barnacles - long writhing stalks or pendulates, tipped with shells - are normally found deep below the waves, but were washed up clinging to a log.

And another interesting and sad story, Britain's biggest common carp was found poisoned in a lake.

The 25-year-old, dubbed Benson, weighed a staggering 64lb (29kg) - more than a large dog - andwas worth £20,000.

But the carp was found floating on the surface of Kingfisher Lake

A quantity of uncooked nuts, which are toxic to fish who swell up because they cannot process them, were found nearby on the bank

He had been the star attraction at the lake for more than 15 years since being introduced as 24.5lb tiddler during their first carp stock in 1995.

He arrived at the eight-acre Kingfisher lake with a fellow carp, who sadly abandoned him when she swam off down the River Nene in the flood of 1998.

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