The corpse of a monster that lived in prehistoric times washed away the American coast

Strange creatures are thought to have existed since prehistoric times, drifting to the coast in New Jersey, USA.

According to the Daily Star, the body of this strange creature was discovered on the New Jersey coast on 4/5.

Stephanie Hall photographed the body of the strange creature.

Stephanie Hall discovered this 2 meter long creature when she returned from a jog on the beach.

'I saw something scary on the sand,' Miss Hall said. 'I think this creature is scary but it is also very strange, so I took some photos'.

'I don't know what the creature is, so leave the answer to the fishermen. Maybe they know what kind of fish it is, ' Hall said.

This strange creature is then identified as sturgeon , a creature that has existed since the Triassic period, 245 million years ago. This fish can grow up to 4 meters long and weighs nearly 400kg.

Sturgeon rarely washes on the coast.

More surprisingly, they can live up to 60 years. Larry Hanja from the New Jersey Environmental Protection Agency says the short-nosed fish and the Atlantic range are in danger.

"It is very rare for sturgeon to drift to the coast because the number of these creatures is not much ," Hanja said. 'They are special creatures, like the legacy dating back to the dinosaurs'.

This creature is believed to have lived since prehistoric times.

Ms. Hall from Ocean Gate, New Jersey said she had never seen such a creature before.'Obviously this phenomenon is strange. Experts have come to take the fish to study '.

The closest sturgeon fossil was found at the same time as the extinct dinosaur, 65 million years ago. The sturgeon at that time is almost no different from today, so they are called 'living fossils' , according to the Daily Star.

The International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN) estimates that 85% of sturgeon species are threatened with extinction, most of them are overfished.