On the morning of January 30th this year, Tricia Mahmias of Locust Valley NY was walking on the beach in Bayville  NY, at the Connecticut end of Long Island with her husband and two dogs.  She came across and snapped this extraordinary, ugly dead animal. It was her son Michael, an Environmental Scientist, who filled her in later about the Montauk Monster.  She checked out the Newsday piece online:  “And lo and behold it is the same thing – and in very good condition. There is no way this is a raccoon or any other kind of animal I have ever seen before.”