Or if you were originally claimed by a strange new predator that can wound at a distance... it goes straight to the meal, starting by whatever cavity is most easily accessible...
The cephalopod may be huge, but numbers win on size. In a few hours, nothing will be left of the eight-armed giant but shreds of meat and a beak
My own interpretations of the Bathysphere Fish cryptids sighted by William Beebe in the 1930’s during the first bathysphere dives.
All 5 species were never seen again and it’s unknown if they’re still around or even existed.
Oh no, the tyrannosaur has stepped on something slimy at the beach... and also that big rock turned out to be a monstrous, mineral-mimicking mollusk, using the power of chromatophores and skin papillae. Vacation ruined, the Cretaceous kraken strikes again!