A Florida fisherman caught a 362kg sea monster

IT'S big, it's old and it's scaly. But little else is known about this Florida fisherman's catch of a lifetime which he described as 'a dinosaur.'

A FLORIDA fisherman thought he was gonna need a bigger boat after snagging a rare 362kg sea monster off Miami Beach.

Captain Mark Quartiano, better known as 'Mark the Shark', posted a photo of the bizarre catch on Instagram on November 23 with the caption, "rare deep water dactylobatus caught while filming a TV show soon to air at the end of the year."

Very little is known about the species of fish apart from the fact it mostly inhabits muddy bottoms of the continental slope at depths of up to 915 metres.

Quartiano, who tagged and released the beast back into the ocean, told ABC news "it's like a big gigantic whipping stingray."

"It's a dinosaur," he said.

"It was very old. It had barnacles all over it."

Mark the Shark has caught other odd creatures in the past.