Mysterious sea creature washes up on beach and everyone is trying to work out what it is

What washes up on the beach is rarely cute, or even alive.

This is no exception to that rule.

A reddit user recently posted a photo of an unidentified creature to a handful of subreddits, in the hopes of identifying it.

The creature, which allegedly washed up on the Leo Carrillo Beach in Malibu, California, was widely speculated to be a sea hare.

And who are we to disagree?

The reddit user who uploaded the image said:

It weighed around seven pounds and if i had to guess about five inches wide.

The California sea hare is a species of sea slug that is, unsurprisingly, found on the coastlines of California and Northwestern Mexico.

They can grow up to 30 inches long and live for around a year.

One individual Hare was once reported to have laid 500 million eggs at 27 separate times during less than five months.

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