its a baby "sand worm"........just kidding!! Wow....it is weird looking. does it have teeth or a sucker type mouth?? (not joking here. really curious)

Guess I should have asked how big it was before asking the above question. Hard to tell in these pics.

it's pretty cool! Is it a slug of some kind? One with no voice

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Maybe you have discovered a new species?

Looks like a big ol CUTWORM....that's what we have like that here in Calif!???

The cutworms in the midwest hung out on tomato plants and were bright green. This thing has a wide mouth, (like a snake)...in the second picture it's mouth and face are partially covered up with sand. ...it's about two and a half inches long.....and no signs of plants dying or dead around where it was, so I don't think it's a grub of any kind. At least not any kind I have ever seen. Much bigger than the kinds of grubworms we used to have in the US, and those were white, without scales. Puzzling.