A massive walrus was seen on the west coast of Ireland on Sunday – the first confirmed sighting of the country’s shelled creature, a report said.
The marine mammal was discovered on the rocks along Valentia Island in Kerry, witnesses told the Irish Independent.
“He came out of the water on the rocks and gave us a little show,” Alan Houlihan told the newspaper.
“At first I thought it was a seal and then I saw the fangs,” said Houlihan, who was with his 5-year-old daughter when they saw the walrus.
Marine biologist Kevin Flannery, the director of a local aquarium, told reporters that Sunday’s discovery “is the first confirmed observation of a walrus” in Ireland.
“It’s incredible … It’s unique to me.”
Flannery theorizes that the walrus inadvertently traveled from the Arctic to an iceberg.
“It’s from the Arctic,” Flannery told the newspaper. “I’d say it happened to fall asleep on an iceberg and go and then go too far, in the middle of the Atlantic or somewhere like Greenland.”