By Lauren Beavis

One of the world's most elusive sea creatures has washed up on a British beach.

The septopus - the seven-legged octopus - is a species with eight arms like other types - but in males, one of them is also a reproductive organ.

They are very rarely seen but one has now washed up at Forvie National Nature Reserve at Collieston, near Ellon, Scotland.

Arms with rows of suckers were initially discovered by a member of the public in November.

Now two months on further remains of the unusual deep-sea animal have been discovered on a beach in Aberdeenshire.

After some detective work by conservationists, experts were able to determine the identification of the animal as a septopus.

Dr. Lauren Smith, marine biologist at Saltwater Life, said: "I went out looking every day f

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