A MASSIVE conger eel the size of a large dog has been found washed up at Sandbanks.

Kelly Lucas, who was walking her dog along the beach when she came across the mammoth marine creature, was quite taken aback at its scale when she saw it this morning.

She sent in this picture, which features another dog who was seemingly keen but cautious to find out what was interrupting its morning walk.

Ms Lucas estimated it to be somewhere in the region of 1.5m in length.