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Originally Posted by stevej37

Wth is it??

I think there are only 2 options, squid or octopus. My vote is squid.

Octopuses have 8 "equal" arms (unless they've lost one somehow, they regenerate, I believe).
Squids have 8 "equal" arms and 2 tentacles (aka, feeding arms) that are longer with pads on the end that have suckers.

On the thing that they pulled out of the sand, I saw what looked like one of the squid tentacles/feeding arms.

I'm assuming it washed up dead on the beach and was partially buried in sand by the waves.