Tourist finds terrifying deep sea creature washed up on a beach 

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Bizarre shark with humped back and black, dinner plate-sized eyes washes up on New Zealand beach, terrifying tourists A tourist has had the shock of his life after finding a terrifying deep sea creature with bulging eyes washed up on a New Zealand beach. Martin Stehlik, from the Czech Republic, was strolling down Ruakaka Beach with his uncle George Plesky when he found the enormous bigeye thresher shark and quickly used the opportunity to snap rare photos of him holding the creature's unusually long tail. 'It was just so strange and we'd never seen anything like it before, with its long tail and it's big, black eyes. It was very unusual,' Mr Plesky said, The Northern Advocate reported. According to Department of Conservation shark expert Clinton Duffy, thresher sharks hunt offshore and are rarely seen close to beaches. Their long tail is used to stun their prey underwater and due to their small teeth and mouths, are considered mostly harmless to humans. Samples were taken from the shark's carcass as little is known about the biology of the thresher shark.