A MYSTERIOUS giant "furry" sea monster has been washed up on the eastern coast of Russia.

Locals were left baffled by the "strange creature" and are appealing to scientists to name the "baffling behemoth".

7 The hulking carcass was found on the Pacific coast of the Kamchatka peninsula Credit: Svetlana Dyadenko/The Siberian Times

A video shows the hulking "smelly" carcass found on the Pacific coastline of the Kamchatka peninsula close to the remote village of Pakhachi.

The ugly chalk-coloured beast - reported to be larger than three men - appears to have a tail or long tentacle, and tube-like hair or fur.

It has “no definite head or eyes” and was too heavy for locals to move, according to The Siberian Times.

Speculation has ranged from a bizarre primeval relic from the deep, to an extinct woolly mammoth released from a permafrost grave by the warm summer.

7 The giant creature is so large and heavy that locals were unable to move it Credit: Svetlana Dyadenko/The Siberian Times

Witness Svetlana Dyadenko said: “The most interesting thing to me is that the creature is covered with tubular fur.

“Could it be some ancient creature?

“I wish scientists could inspect this enigma that the ocean threw at us.”

After inspecting the “stinking” monster, she likened it to a vast “hairy octopus”.

She said: “It does look like fur, but it’s tubular, as if a lot of tiny pipes hang down the carcass.

“A really strange-looking creature.

“We googled it and couldn’t find anything resembling it.”

7 Locals have been left baffled as to what the creature is Credit: Svetlana Dyadenko/The Siberian Times

7 The weird monster has no head or eyes but does have a 'tail' Credit: Svetlana Dyadenko/The Siberian Times

Svetlana reported that locals “could not dig or pull it out”.

She said: “You would need an excavator because part of it got completely covered with sand.”

One puzzled onlooker said: “I wonder if it came from a thawed glacier?”

Another woman replied: “It’s got to have been brought from the Arctic.”

One theory is that the beast could be a “globster”, a term coined in 1962 to describe a mysterious carcass washed up in Tasmania.

7 Some have said the creature is a mysterious 'globster' Credit: Svetlana Dyadenko/The Siberian Times

7 Some say it could be a woolly mammoth released from a permafrost grave by the warm summer Credit: Svetlana Dyadenko/The Siberian Times

7 The large beast washed up on the Pacific coastline of the Kamchatka peninsula close to the remote village of Pakhachi Credit: Svetlana Dyadenko/The Siberian Times

Globsters may at first resemble a gigantic octopus while others may have some bones or tentacles or flippers - or even eyes - but they are not usually hairy.

Many are believed to be the remnants of whales or sharks or other sea creatures that have decayed over time, and taken on bizarre shapes.

Russian marine scientist Sergei Kornev, from the Research Institute of Fisheries and Oceanography, today said he believes the Kamchatka monster is part of a whale.

He said: “Under the influence of the sea, time and various animals, from the smallest to the largest, a whale often takes on bizarre forms.”

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Kornev added: “This is only a part of a whale, not a whole one.”

Another so-called “globster” caused a stir in Alaska recently when it washed up in St James Bay, stunning local fishermen.

And a sea creature with hundreds of squirming tentacles is baffling locals after washing up on a Vietnamese beach last month.

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