Animal experts are baffled after the exhausted common seal was discovered near Borwick, Lancs, reports the Mirror.

A couple saw it from their car. They managed to get it in the vehicle and took it home before calling the RSPCA.

Animal collection officer Nick Green said: “It’s a mystery how it turned up in the middle of nowhere.

“It was about a mile from the River Lune and four miles from the sea.”

There were no grazes on the seal’s body to suggest it had crawled from the river.