sea animal vs beast

sea animal and beast both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
sea animal	Yes	No	No	No
beast	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, beast is a hypernym of sea animal; that is, beast is a word with a broader meaning than sea animal:

sea animal: any of numerous animals inhabiting the sea including e.g. fishes and molluscs and many mammals
beast: a living organism characterized by voluntary movement

Other hypernyms of sea animal include animal, animate being, brute, creature, fauna.

sea animal (noun)	beast (noun)
any of numerous animals inhabiting the sea including e.g. fishes and molluscs and many mammals	a living organism characterized by voluntary movement
	a cruelly rapacious person