The monster that ate Morydd

How is it possible that have I peered so many times from the cliff edge here, 15 minutes walk from my house, and never before spotted this gigantic beast standing ankle deep in the sea, mouth open as if about to snuffle up a draft of salt water?

And now I recall the mediaeval chronicler Geoffrey of Monmouth's story of the 3rd century BCE ancient British (i.e. Welsh) king Morydd (Latinized as Morvidus): how he defeated a rival in battle and killed all the captive soldiers and how he slaughtered a bear with an uprooted tree and how he bravely fought a dragon that emerged from the Irish Sea and began to eat up the dwellers on the western shore - but was himself consumed 'like a big fish swallows a little fish'.

This tale, among others, has been commandeered by creationists to support the idea that dinosaurs did not exist millions of years ago but lived co-terminously with mankind. Myth and legends about monsters and dragons are regarded as proof that evolution did not take place, and all life forms were created simultaneously as the Bible asserts. See here for a discussion of this particular 'plain and straightforward story' and here for evidence that fossil dinosaurs are so recent that they contain fresh blood. (The ant-evolution movement is currently being validated in the USA by the political right wing.)

Morydd's paddling monster is clearly somewhat petrified perhaps having found the fierce Welsh king indigestible after all. It's been standing here long enough to become a popular breeding place for sea birds and on its flank, left, can be seen a guillemots' nesting ledge, daubed white with guano, high above the sea.
It doesn't look as if the beast going to move any time soon but if it does I hope it doesn't come looking for the local inhabitants again.

(I must tell Richard Dawkins about this. He may need to rewrite.)