TERRIFYING DEEP SEA MONSTERS ? ARE THEY?

Youtube : SEA MONSTERS

Loved the beauty and creativity of this YouTube video by Bright Side Dark Side station

GOTHIC FISH

 I have no idea if these are artist's drawings of actual fish that exist

 or come from the artist's imagination!

THE DINOSAUR SEA MONSTERS : BBC EDUCATION CLICK ON THE CREATURE!

BBC UK : DINOSAURS and SEA MONSTERS  Gotta go to the site and click on the images! Now some look familiar - like the turtle - but others do not and are definitely in the DINOSAUR category. 

Here's one of them! :  A giant predator so big it would dwarf today's sperm whale, an AQUATIC REPTILE!

Liopleurodon was the mightiest aquatic predator of all time. Its 25 metre long body would have cruised silently through the shallow seas of the late Jurassic, propelled by its flapping flippers.

Liopleurodon was a hunter. Its long jaws and rows of needle-sharp teeth would have made marine crocodiles, the giant fish Leedsichthys, ichthyosaurs and even other pliosaurs vulnerable to attack.

Liopleurodon's nose allowed it to smell underwater. This allowed Liopleurodon to smell its prey from some distance away. Despite needing to breath air, Liopleurodon spent its entire life at sea and was unable to leave the water. Consequently, it would have given birth to its young alive and may have visited shallower water to breed....

THE KRAKEN ? MANY EYES AND TENTACKLES SUGGEST A GIANT SQUID

Public domain/Wikimedia Commons

Perhaps the Kraken was actually a Giant Squid ... But maybe not...

The story goes that they ate so many fish so vigorously that they created huge whirlpools that sucked ships and sailors into the sea...

THE NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM - UNITED KINGDOM : WHAT CREATURE INSPIRED THE KRAKEN? THE JENNY HANIVERS? THE MERFOLK

NHM- UK : DISCOVER SEA MONSTERS AND THEIR INSPIRATIONS

Excerpt: Originating in Scandinavian folklore, the kraken is usually depicted as an aggressive cephalopod-like creature capable of destroying entire ships and dragging sailors to their doom. .... 'Many cultures around the world have a myth or legend about a tentacled beast bothering seamen or generally getting up to no good,' Jon says. .... 'Squid and octopus really are unusual animals. Their body plan isn't similar to anything else that we know of in the sea. They move quickly and the way that their bodies, arms and tentacles move seem to stimulate something in our fear of the unknown.

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Siren here!  This website has a great collection of art depicting the merfolk and other species!

SEA MONSTERS THAT ACTUALLY EXIST : FORREST GALANTE

Forrest Galante is a world renowned wildlife biologist.

MERMAIDS and SEA MONSTERS HAVE LONG CAPTURED OUR IMAGINATIONS

Siren here!  When I started this blog many years ago, I decided to put two tags or labels under posts.  One was and is Science Facts and the other was and is DELICIOUS FICTIONS.  Although this blog has been more devoted to the Science Facts, no doubt about it, I've been inspired by the mysteries of the oceans that cover most of our planet and the idea that MERMAIDS and SEA MONSTERS EXISTED or EXIST is still very exciting to me.

So I thought I would start this New Year, 2026 by posting a but abut those mysteries and the real creatures that have existed or still do exits!

Remember that if you have a link or a book you would like me to look at or post about to leave me a comment!

Siren

TOFU JOE'S COLLECTION OF SEA MONSTERS and LEGENDS

These sea monster illustrations are courtesy of 

Historia animalium 

(1551-1558)

TOFU JOE'S SEA MONSTERS and LEGEND

AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY - MYTHIC WATER CREATURES

http://www.amnh.org/exhibitions/mythic-creatures


THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY - MYTHIC WATER CREATURES!



Find out about Sea Monsters, Mermaids, and Killer Whales among many other titles! This is an AFRICAN MERMAID from the site...

SEA MONSTER OFF COAST OF GREECE? CAN YOU IDENTIFY THIS?

FOX NEWS - SEA MONSTER OFF GRECIAN COASTLINE  go to this link to see the picture!

Some say it could be a Cuvier’s beaked whale, which have been known to frequent the Mediterranean, others have speculated that it could be the “love child of a hippo and crocodile”—but so far, even scientists are baffled.

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Siren here!  It's possible that this is a carcass - dead not alive - that's bobbing around.  I thought of a horse, a hippo...

SEA MONSTER CARCASS PROVES TO BE WHALE

DISCOVERY COM - SEA MONSTER IS WHALE
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A marine biologist soon identified the remains as a killer whale, in part because of its distinctive flipper. The mystery was solved, but it’s not the first time an animal’s carcass has been mistaken for a monster. In fact, New Zealand is one of the most common places in the world — along with Newfoundland, Canada and Florida — for such “sea monsters” to appear. THIS LINK HAS OTHER LINKS TO LEAD YOU TO SEA MONSTER AND BLOB INFO!

STRANGE SCIENCE'S ILLUSTRATED STORY OF STRANGE SEA CREATURES by EARLY OCEAN EXPLORERS

STRANGE SCIENCE : SEA MONSTERS : Pics and Stories link here

This is an interesting article full of pictures from the 1400's and forward. Some of the strange creatures that were drawn and written about.

One of the illustrations.  Called MonkFish... Looks to me like someone tried to put people clothes on the fish.  Year: 1854 by Scientist: Japetus Steenstrup, this illustration now appears in: The Search for the Giant Squid by Richard Ellis

Excerpt: In the 16th century, two naturalists, Rondelet and Pierre Belon, produced descriptions of animals they termed the Sea Monk, or monk-fish. (Historian William M. Johnson has noted that the sea monk bears a striking resemblance to Saint Francis of Assisi.) Centuries later, a very talented naturalist, Japetus Steenstrup, gave a presentation in which he compared Rondelet's illustration (on the left) and Belon's illustration (on the right) to the likeness of a squid captured in 1853. He also took into consideration a 16th-century description of the Sea Monk by Conrad Gesner. Steenstrup made an amazing deduction: "Could we, given these bits of information of how the Monk was conceived at that time, come so near to it that we could recognize to which of nature's creatures it should most probably be assigned? The Sea Monk is firstly a cephalopod."

SEA MONSTERS : INTERACTIVE MAP FROM NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC

From December 2005 came the National Geographic Sea Monster interactive.
ZOMMIFY THE NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SEA MONSTER MAP  link here!

Giant Squid and other Oceanic Mysteries always make me wonder if Sea Monsters were real.  I was told long ago that they were put on maps not because of sightings but because of the fear sailors felt when they went into then uncharted territories of the sea.  Frankly, oceanic dinosaurs wouldn't surprise me.

GIANT 45 Foot long and 4.5 tons of DECAYED SEA MONSTER UP ON SHORE IN CHINA

Live Science brings you this one..... ooooooh..... YUCK! 4.5 tons and 45 feet long....

SEA MONSTER

SEA MONSTERS ON OLD MAPS OF THE SEA

OLD MAPS of the sea often show sea monsters. Today I wonder if these monsters were placed in unknown waters or about fear. Where they simply whales? Were there other species out there in the ancient oceans that are now extinct?

SEA MONSTER

BATHYNOMUS GIGANTEUS "BART" a 2.5 FOOT BUG!

"A 2.5-foot GIANT ISAPOD that was found attached to a submersible robot. These actually exist, deep under the sea, where they feast on whale carcasses. Another terrifying angle, after the jump."

SIRENS SAYS : I'd rather be tackled by a GIANT SQUID... this thing feeds on DEAD WHALES...

STRANGE SCIENCE SEAMONSTERS

Contrary to popular belief, the sailors of Columbus's day did not think they would sail right off the edge of the earth. They were, however, apprehensive about what they would find in their travels. Mistakes about marine life have ranged from inaccurate assumptions about the behavior of known species to fanciful depictions of animals that "might" exist. HERE IS A CATALOGUE OF SEA MONSTERS THEY THOUGHT THEY SAW - or MAYBE THEY DID!