Lego: 13-year-old boy finds rare Lego octopus washed ashore

A 13-year-old boy has found a rare Lego piece washed up on a beach in south-west England.

Liutauras, from Cornwall, spotted the octopus after two years of searching for Lego pieces that famously fell into the sea thirty years ago, when a cargo ship encountered a storm.

In fact, it's not the only piece Liutauras has gathered from the shore - he's collected almost 800 pieces of the toy!

He regularly goes down to the local beaches with his parents to see what he can find and he's also come across a number of fossils too.

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The rare octopus Lego piece

Nearly five million pieces of Lego fell into the sea off the coast of Cornwall in 1997 when a cargo ship encountered a storm.

Among the pieces that went overboard were 352,000 pairs of flippers, 97,500 scuba tanks, and 92,400 swords - but octopuses are the most prized objects as only 4,200 were onboard.

Liutauras said he was "happy" to have found the rare octopus on a beach in the Cornish town of Marazion, after years of searching.

Liutauras regularly goes down to the local beaches with his parents, and his father Vytautas explained how much the discovery means to his son.

He said: "We've been looking for that octopus for two years, it's not easy to find.

"We were not expecting to find it at all because it's very rare," Vytautas added.

Liutauras says his next goal is to find one of the 33,941 dragons that also toppled into the water thirty years ago.