biolog

What is being called the Montauk Monster is clearly a chimera in need of moisturizer and maybe a beach towel. Most likely a xenographed composite of two animals, like a Cannis rattus. Either way…take that affluent beach community. Something heinous for a change washed up on your gated shore.

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Update

I gladly defer to Darren over at Tetrapod Zoology on this one. Apparently he’s very familiar with the idea of Taphonomy and decomposition. The supposed Montauk beak or bill does not belong to a turtle, eagle, or mythic Griffon; it’s the upper jaw minus dentition of a North American canine. As Darren pointed out:

The tendency for the soft tissues of the snout to be lost early on in decomposition immediately indicates that the ‘beak’ is just a defleshed snout region: we’re actually seeing the naked premaxillary bones. And this is confirmed by new photos which show without doubt that this is the case

Still, the hands and brow region do not suggest a dog. An educated guess, and without knowing the overall size of the creature, would say a raccoon, Procyon lotor. Most dog breads, save for Bull Terriers, have pronounced brow-ridges while the rodent family characteristically maintains slopping, less-pronounced ones.