Photos show what looks like a skeleton and mermaid hybrid ... Back in February, a fisherman was left shocked after he caught a strange-looking creature which has been dubbed an "alien".

Paula and Dave Regan were in the seaside town of Margate on March 10 when they spotted a mermaid-like skeletal creation near the shoreline, according to the local news outlet Kent Online.

Beachcombers were baffled over a creepy, “skeleton-like” figure with fins ... emaciated body and scaled fishtail like some macabre mermaid. “At first, I thought it was a bit of driftwood ...