Last week, I told you about a monster that seems to have washed ashore in the Hamptons that has been tagged as the Montauk Monster. Here's another picture from a different angle:

Now, the folks over at Wired Science claim the monster is a pit bull, a dogfighting washout who washed up a Long Island beach.

The Monster now looks rather less mysterious, though no less monstrous; its body, no longer swollen, is proportional to expectation, and its "beak" is revealed as nostrils bared unevenly by decomposition. And though I first thought it might be a wandering Eurasian Sea Otter, the skull now looks to me like that of a pit bull.

It's still speculation, of course, but it makes sense: there's an awful lot of structural resemblance. The size is right. And the greater New York City area is full of pit bulls -- many of them perfectly gentle pets, but others cruelly raised to be attack dogs or fighters, dispatched when they prove too ferocious or not ferocious enough. That would explain the binding around its ankles.

Others claim it is a publicity stunt by the Cartoon Network for their new show "Cryptids Are Real" since a graphic designer originally offered up the picture.

In a recent poll here at GaySocialites.com, you the readers said you think the Montauk Monster is real. After this new take, what do you think?

Is the Montauk Monster a dead dog or a real beast?