From ancient times sea people have spoken about big oceanic monsters. In this report I want to tell you about them. Let's start:
The kraken:
It is an enormous squid which appears in many sailor tales. In accordance with some descriptions, the kraken can hold and eat up a medium sized ship. It has got eight tentacles and a terrifying beak for crushing the hulls of the vessels.
Of course, it does not exist. The most simillar animal is the giant squid, a cephalopod which lives into deep waters (see the photo below)
The Megalodon:
It is a prehistoric shark which dissapeared two million years ago. In comparison with actual sharks, it was very big (see the photograph below)
At the bottom of the picture you can see a human diver. Above him, a white shark (the biggest actual shark in the world) Then, a medium size megalodon. And finally, at the top of the image, we have got an example of the biggest megalodon ever found.
The image that you have seen is a reconstruction, beacuse there isn't any megalodon skeleton (they had no bones, but cartilages) Paleontologists compared a megalodon fang with a white shark fang, and then they suposed its size thinking about the relation between both elements.
White shark and megalodon fangs |
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