Picture of the Day: Nightmarish Hell-Beast of the Deep Loses Fiendish Claw-Tentacle

Walking on the beach the other day I found this. It would appear some hell beast of the deep has missplaced a diabolical clawed tentacle.



Some of my friends on facebook who foolishly disbelieve in nightmarish sea monsters tried to suggest it was the decomposing body of a sea snake but I'd like to point out (A) that is clearly a claw, and (B) the scales are going the wrong way for that to be the front end (it had been posited that that's a fang and the rest of the skull assemblage has disappeared)