Find evidence of the existence of the Kraken monster

Archaeologists believe that they had enough evidence to show that the Kraken monster really existed.

The most famous among the deep sea monsters, the legendary monster Kraken is the subject of many folk tales, myths, and science fiction stories throughout the centuries. Often described as marine creatures like giant squid, monsters are said to attack ships between oceans, eating cannibal sailors to satisfy hunger.

Archaeologists not only discovered a strange, second-order bone specimen, but they also found a fossil believed to be the hard (hard) part of the ancient squid or octopus (also known as the cuttlefish). ).

"This is a finding that can be considered extremely lucky. Because, it is like suddenly finding a needle in a haystack," said Mark McMenamin, a paleontologist at Mount Holyoke University in Massachusetts. his discoveries on October 30 at the annual meeting of the American Geological Society (GSA).

Even so, the hypothesis of the existence of Kraken legend monster has not been widely accepted. David Fastovsky, for example, said: "Demonstrating the Kraken's existence is not really necessary!" . Fastovsky was a paleontologist at Rhode Island University present at McMenamin's presentation at GSA and wrote a review for the Paleontology Society.

In 2011, McMenamin also had a special attention when he and his colleagues first raised the idea of ​​the existence of the sea monster Kraken at the GSA conference. The evidence that McMenamin offers is the backbone arranged in the strange shape of ichthyosaur (fish lizard or fisherman, whose scientific name is Shonisaurus popularis) found in Berlin-Ichthyosaur State Park in Nevada State. (America).

S. popularis is a flippers, a large, long-stemmed reptile like a bus today and existed during the Triassic period from 250 to 200 million years ago. McMenamin and colleagues argue that the backbone of ichthyosaur is rearranged by a mollusc-like octopus or giant squid today playing with their prey. The modern octopus species collects shells and shells along with many other garbage together to block their entrance. There is also evidence that giant squid species today fight fiercely with sperm whales through tentacles on fish bodies and corpses in fish stomachs.

The existence of the sea monster Kraken was the subject of science and fiction stories for several centuries.(Photos: Wikipedia)

The intelligence of mollusc animals is also demonstrated by the ability to arrange prey spine into unusual shapes. But, Glenn Storrs - Cincinnati Museum Center manager - calls this bizarre arrangement just "indirect evidence". McMenamin also mentioned a previously exhibited ichthyosaur fossil at the Las Vegas Museum of Natural History.

Fossils in the museum house are arranged exactly like where it was found. In particular, near the fossil are bone samples that are no longer in their proper position in the ichthyosaur conformation. The chest of the specimen in the museum house also shows the mark of injury - which McMenamin said - perhaps due to the tight pressure of another larger predator, otherwise, the giant sea monster similar to the Kraken. .

In addition, McMenamin's team also tried to collect more valuable fossils and one of them was a model - which, after comparing with the squid mine giant Humbold , paleontologist said that it was is the mysterious Kraken of the Triassic. However, Fastovsky commented: "McMenamin's new evidence is not convincing either!".

Fossils found in Berlin-Ichthyosaur State Park in Nevada are considered to be part of the giant ancient squid.(Photo: fearnet.com)

Giant monsters in Hollywood's new movie, "The War between the Gods" , are also shown some similarities to the legendary Kraken in the legend. Kraken was first described in a manuscript that existed about 1,000 years ago.

In Scandinavian mythology, the Kraken is a monster so big that its body looks like some small islands. The sailors often mistook the monster's body as an island, so when they approached, they were attacked by a sea monster and its terrible tentacles would drag the ship and the crew down to the seabed.

A few centuries ago, the line between legendary and realistic animals was very fragile, and Kraken was just one of several animals (including dragons and other sea monsters) whose existence was always controversial. . In 1752, the bishop Eric Ludvigsen Pontopiddan, Scandinavia published a book entitled "Natural History of Norway" which contains a chapter describing the species of sea demons.

The bishop considered the Kraken to be a large monster with a "round, flat and many tentacles" body . About a century later, science named the monster Kraken. In 1857, a Danish naturalist named Japetus Steenstrup discovered a squid up to 13m long, and it was scientifically named Architeuthis dux. It is thought that perhaps the Kraken story stems from this giant squid.