Peter Bailey, 27, has discovered a creature with "the face of a horse, the body of a pig and the claws of a bear" has washed up dead on a South Wales beach.
Bailey took photos of the animal and passed them to council chiefs in Tenby.
A spokesman for Pembrokeshire council said he believed from the pictures that it was a dog that had become bloated after a long time in the water.
But Peter insists the metre-long "
monster" was far too big to be a dog.
He said: "It was a disgusting-looking thing. My first impression was that it had the face of a horse, the claws of a bear and the body of a pig.
"It was obviously decomposing and it had lost most of its hair."
Pictures of the creature were shown to Dr Dan Forman, from Swansea University's College of Science, who has his own theory about the identity of the Beast of Tenby.
Dr Forman said: "It is difficult to say from the picture, but judging by its size and the fact it has five toes, it could be a badger."
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