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

[aggienaut]

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)

Comments

[emo-snal.livejournal.com]

Still though, when faced with a claw on a tentacle, I, though really as skeptical about mystic sea monsters as the next guy, like a scientist, tried to find explanations for why there was a claw on the end of a tentacle --- You on the otherhand, like some sort of religious person, tried to come up with far-fetched explanations for why what we were looking at was not actually what it looked like.

[comedychick.livejournal.com]

It still didn't look like a claw to me :P

[emo-snal.livejournal.com]

It was shaped exactly 100% like a claw!