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)

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[emo-snal.livejournal.com]

(:

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 :[