A Sea Monster is the term used to refer to a hypothetical aquatic creatures unknown to science; generally of large proportions, of which it is said that there have supposedly been an infinity of possible sightings and testimonies throughout the world. From their popularity, a number of legends have been formed about various of these creatures since the most ancient times. One of the most popular collections of sea monsters is the one included in the work of Olao Magno Historia de las gentes nortenales (Rome, 1555).
Often sea monsters in both folklore and popular fiction are of titanic size, many times larger than would be possible even in the deepest parts of Earth's ocean, this is due to an ancient belief that the sea was bottomless, which has since been disproven but remains a popular topic in folklore and fiction.
Sightings of sea monsters in ancient times[]
Sea monster accounts are found in virtually all cultures that have contact with the sea. For example, Avienius relates of Carthaginian explorer Himilco's voyage "...there monsters of the deep, and beasts swim amid the slow and sluggishly crawling ships." (lines 117–29 of Ora Maritima). Sir Humphrey Gilbert claimed to have encountered a lion-like monster with "glaring eyes" on his return voyage after formally claiming St. John's, Newfoundland (1583) for England. Another account of an encounter with a sea monster comes from July 1734. Hans Egede, a Dano-Norwegianmissionary, reported that on a voyage to Godthåb on the western coast of Greenland he observed
Appearance[]
- In November 1970, a rotting corpse washed up on the beach at Mann Hill, Massachusetts, United States. The body weighed between 16 to 20 tons, and seemed to have a structure resembling a long neck. Despite the fact that the carcass was torn to pieces by storms, most scientists are sure that it was just the carcass of a shark that acquired that shape when some parts of its body decomposed, giving the false impression that it was it was another animal.
- On April 25, 1977, the Japanese trawler Zuiyo Maru hauled on board the suspected remains of a plesiosaur off the coast of New Zealand. Due to the advanced state of decomposition of the unknown corpse, the captain ordered that after having photographed it, taken the measurements and obtained some tissue samples, it should be thrown back into the sea, fearing that it might have contaminated his cargo of fish. Many ships, after the event, searched for the unknown body that the Japanese had thrown, but without success. However, regarding the origin of the corpse, the scientists are also sure that it would be a shark, since it is not strange that sharks can acquire these forms when they decompose. Proof of this is that when the samples taken on the ship were analyzed, biochemist Dr. Shigeru Kilmora from the University of Tokyo discovered that the tissues contained a special type of protein, known as elastodin, which is only present in sharks and not in the other animal groups to which the origin of the corpse was attributed.
Members[]
- Mermaid
- Kraken
- Giant Lobster
- Leviathan
- Sea Lion
- Devil Whale
- Hydra
- Capricorn
- Cetus
- Sea Hag
- Uletif
- Cthulhu
- Hrosshvalur
- Kelpie
- Raudkembingur
- A-mi'-kuk
- Trolual
- Hrökkáll
- Cecaelia
- Black Demon
- Ziphius
- Auñ Pana
- Chipfalamfula
- Jormungandr
- Moby Dick
- Prister
- Sea Swine
- Sea Serpent
- Yamata no Orochi
- Quinotaur
- Dagon
- Scylla
- Sea Beast
- Charybdis
- Karkinos
- Rahab
- Umibōzu
- Bloop
- Hippocamp
- Hook Island Sea Monster
- Colossal Claude
- Cirein-cròin
- Akkorokamui
- Lusca
- Morgawr
- Gloucester Sea Serpent
- U-28 Creature
- UB-85 Atrocity
- Water Horses
Gallery[]
Images[]
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External Links[]
- Sea Monsters on the Wikipedia
