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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)
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No... it is not a fang....
Date: 2012-12-12 01:33 pm (UTC)But when you showed that picture and said claw.. I had to go through all my herptological files in my brain and when... Nope... reproductive barb...
Many male species of snakes have a pair of reproductive barbs they use to hook under the female's scale during mating. This is one way we can tell the males and females apart. They only are visible when you press on their abdomen a certain way.
However.. I think I like your explanation better.
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Date: 2012-12-12 01:38 pm (UTC)Yeah a friend who is actually a veterinarian in Australia specializing in reptiles weighed in on the debate with the same explanation you have. And I so wanted it to be evidence of some nightmarish creature from the deep ):
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Date: 2012-12-12 01:40 pm (UTC)I still like your story better though
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Date: 2012-12-16 09:47 am (UTC)Seeing it I definitely thought about how in the olden days people would definitely have concluded it WAS evidence of strange tentacled sea monsters out in the wild blue yonder. Not like now where everyone seemed to want to believe it was a sea snake :[
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Date: 2012-12-17 12:38 am (UTC)Also: "During that time, Medusa was pregnant by Poseidon. When Perseus beheaded her, Pegasus, a winged horse, and Chrysaor, a golden sword-wielding giant, sprang from her body."
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