Explanation of the legendary

The world has many strange things that people have not discovered. Besides, people also contribute to the mystery of strange creatures through rumors.

"The world has more than 30 million kinds of animals, but only a small part of science has been discovered. So, the myth of the beast has its head and eagle's wings, but it is a lion, most likely a species. "Flying dinosaurs are still fossils to this day. Or the big rowing whale is mistaken for a giant sea snake, and the great squid is labeled as a seabed monster."

It is the opinion of Dr. Angela Milner, British Museum of Natural History, when discussing rumors about strange creatures that have appeared around the world. So where is the truth?

Giant sea snake

For hundreds of years, sailors have told many stories about giant sea snakes . James Lockhart, author of the book ' The Mysteries of the Sea: Giant Sea Snakes ', says that in 1875 and 1905 there were two credible reports of this sea ​​monster .

In two reports, the majority of witnesses described a similar appearance as a snake-like creature, horse head and darker upper part, pale in the tail. According to Professor Milner, the giant sea snake monster is actually a paddlefish , rarely rising to the surface.

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Loch Ness Monster

Many witnesses and a number of photos taken from the 30s of the last century have forced people to ask the question: is there a long-necked reptile at the time of Loch Ness in Scotland? 180 million years? Prehistoric fossils have shed light on many legends, but have been left in this situation. Professor Milner said the long-necked reptile lived in water that had been extinct 65 million years ago.

If indeed a child survived as a miracle, it must survive the icy period and must be taken to Loch Ness intentionally. However, the above reptile belongs to the sea, and the Loch Ness lake monster lives in fresh water and should have surfaced continuously to breathe air.

The British Museum of Natural History collaborated with Scotland to organize many Loch Ness lake expeditions, but they only found some small nematode worms . Finally, Professor Milner affirmed: 'There is no specific and concrete evidence to prove the existence of monsters in Loch Ness'.

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Horned horses

There are many descriptions of this horse around the world, as early as 400 BC. However, the size and temperament of the particular horse have a couple of different places, such as the horn from several tens of centimeters to 1.2 meters. Some people think it's cute, others avoid it because it's fierce.

Describing the horn on the forehead, it was found to be very similar to the most unique tooth of narwhal, a marine mammal. Furthermore, 10,000 years ago, a horse-like rhino appeared, called Elasmotherium . It is possible that the ancients combined the two animals together to produce products from their imaginations of horned horses .

Another possibility is that it is a white antelope from the Middle Ages. Even though this antelope has two horns but when viewed from a distance or from the side, it looks just like a single long horn.

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Kraken monster

A dangerous sea ​​monster was discovered hundreds of years ago off the UK's Kraken waters. With tens of meters (!), It had knocked down many ships and dragged them into the ocean. The story is fiction based on the truth.

Those are the squid that grows to a gigantic level, but it's not as dangerous, big and terrible as the story says. Professor Milner explains: 'Although they rarely get out of the water, giant squid is real. The largest one ever recorded is 27m long, but many are larger. People once found giant squid meat in the stomach of sperm whales'.

Animal half an eagle, half a lion

Legend originates in Central Asia around 500 years BC. Rising from the earth like an eagle , but the animal said it had a lion body .

In the twentieth century, archaeological discoveries in the Central Asian desert unearthed fossils of flying Protoceratop dinosaurs . The bird's head is half an eagle, the other half lion is very similar to the skull of the Protoceratop dinosaur. Perhaps through the legend of the folk, the animal went into legend.

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One-eyed giant

According to the ancient Greeks, there was a giant race with only one eye between the forehead. In fact, a few thousand years ago, there was a small elephant , their skull was twice as large as a human skull and had a round hole for the tap to stick to (very easily confused with the eye socket).

The two true eye sockets of the elephants are very small, located on the sides of the skull. Of course, only today can we get this information, but the old people only recite the imagination and rumor.

Yeti snowman

After Shipton's Mount Everest expedition and his account in 1951, the story of a bear-like creature has caused public curiosity.

It is known as the Yeti Snowman in the Himalayas , and later discovered many " brothers " like the North American giants, the Yeren people in China, the forest people in Vietnam, the Orang-Pendek in Indonesia. . The area where Yeti appears is also the habitat of the Gigantopithecus, a gibbon that is twice the size of today's gibbons.

Dragon

The dragon from China usually has four nails, but the king's dragon - the sign of authority - has five nails. China is the country that found dinosaur bones fossils 2,000 years ago.

Today, people still have ambiguous notions of dragons and dinosaurs. Also komodo dragons that exist today in Indonesia and dinosaur fossils have allowed filmmakers to recreate the majestic dragon image, which symbolizes the contribution of imagination.

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The Devil sucks Chupacabra goat

Chupacabra, also known as the "goat blood sucker" (in Spanish), is a bizarre creature whose appearance is described as kangaroo, sharp fangs and red eyes streaked like blood. The first report on this creature came from Puerto Rico, and in the 1990s began to spread to the Americas and around the world.

In 1995, the bodies of 8 goats were found in a twitchy, white state in Puerto Rico. What is noticeable is that on the body, especially the chest part of them appear very deep wounds and drain the blood. At first, the heretics were supposed to be behind the brutal mass attacks of livestock, but after a while, more and more pets were killed in the same way that caused anxiety. Settled, bewildered about a mysterious beast never known. Many farm owners even asked parish priests to hold a blessing party to keep their cattle safe. The legend of Chupacabra's blood-sucking beast begins there.

According to the description of various witnesses, Chupacabra is shaped like a reptile, rough skin, red and spiky eyes running along its back. Most people who have seen this creature unify this creature to be between 1.2 and 1.5 meters tall when moving on all four limbs.

Bigfoot monster - Bigfoot

Along with the Yeti snowman Loch Ness, Bigfoot is a representative who can't help but talk about legendary monsters around the world. That's right, stories and evidence of this creature have been 'storming' in the imagination of hundreds of thousands of people around the globe.

Bigfoot is described as a gibbon-like creature, at a height of 2.5 meters or more and covered with a red or brown coat. Witnesses said that in addition to their extraordinary appearance and unusual smell, they were especially impressed with Bigfoot's shrill scream. It is described as unlike any of the animals they have heard before.

Since the first discovery, nearly 900 giant footprints believed to be Bigfoot have been found. Today, legends or stories about Bigfoot have never stopped being mentioned, they even apply to modern culture (pop music), so popular that it is known as a symbol. Meme humor rather than a monster. But who knows? Maybe not just one but a lot of big foot monsters are hiding somewhere out there.