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Some of these "wonders" were too fantastic to be true. That said, almost 10 percent of the species shown in his book are imaginary. But marine life had a little time to recover by the Triassic period, making that time frame rich in fossils, especially in Switzerland's Monte San Giorgio area. What's probably more striking is the artistic representation. A new species of ghost shark discovered near South Africa set records this January. Perhaps the tusks served the purpose of making this cetacean-human encounter appear more evenly matched. Fossil remains described in were well-preserved, except for the head, where nature played a cruel trick on paleontologists main image. When unsuspecting prey swims by, B. Recent fossil finds suggest that at least some plesiosaurs gave live birth, similar to modern whales. Woodward later recounted, "I readily identified the fossil photographed as the impression of a fish-spine, similar in form, but more highly curved than those. What might have inspired the tapestry- like body pattern remains a mystery. The fossilization process had apparently folded the animal's mouth, prompting the original team of scientists to hypothesize that the animal fed flamingo style, foraging in the mud for tiny invertebrates. Although The King's Mirror , a 13th-century manuscript written in Old Norwegian, characterized the sperm whale as a gentle giant, a more common view was that the cetaceans were malicious. This earlyth-century depiction of the "morsus" might have been based on that belief, or might have resulted from confusion about the correct terminology for walruses. Or perhaps a creature totally new to science? In this woodcut, a mother whale and her young look awfully porcine. The fanciful flying fish in the lower left are hard to identify, though they bear some resemblance to fossil sharks known as Iniopterygiformes. On the same page that showed dorsal and ventral views of a ray, this creature appeared. But researchers were able to examine the growth rings in the cross sections of Tanystropheus bones to determine that they are, in fact, two different species. It has gills, fringes, and a long curling tail, but the predominant feature is its gaping mouth lined with sharp teeth. He hadn't found a plesiosaur with a completely different body shape. Historian William M. Did these animals live on land or in the water? That odd animal bears a combination of mismatched features: sea-serpent tail, mammalian face with an almost human expression, winged arms and front flippers. Weirder still, though Woodward originally identified this fossil as Edestus davisii , it later proved to be a partial whorl of the spiral-toothed Permian shark Helicoprion. The digitally reassembled fossils show that the Tanystropheus' skull anatomy and nostril placement -- on the top of it's snout similar to a crocodile -- had the characteristics of an aquatic animal. While the sailors cook their meal over a fire on its back, this porcine cetacean messes with their ship. Year: Scientist: Carolus Clusius Originally published in: Exoticorum Libri Decem Now appears in: Merchants and Marvels edited by Smith and Findlen The trouble with trying to identify exotic species of blowfish from remote regions was that savants had to rely on dried specimens of dubious preservation. The Whirlpool, or Prister, is of the kind of Whales, two hundred Cubits long, and is very cruel. Either way, the turtle observing the spectacle appears entertained. This giant serpent slithered over the water in close proximity to ships and a densely populated coast. Sea Monster! Writer

The tail looks like that of a fish, but more conspicuous are the menacing eye and man-sized tusks. But whereas Lee suggested that the giant sea serpent described in the 16th century by Olaus Magnus was a probably big squid, Oudemans thought Olaus really intended to depict a big snake. Helicoprion would be described by Alexander Karpinsky in , and reconstructing that species would entail a series of colorful mistakes for more than a century. Bufford and Company Now appears in: "Cryptozoology in the Medieval and Modern Worlds" by Peter Dendle in Folklore This sea serpent depiction combined realistic details — the eye, teeth, forked tongue, scales, and color patterns — with fancy. In the Pacific Ocean, he envisioned big, gluttonous whales attacking passing ships, and preening sirens waiting to seduce the sailors. How could a serpent coil on top of the water like that? Rudwick In keeping with the artistic convention of making the prehistoric Earth look perpetually apocalyptic, this scene shows moonlight and menacing clouds over a turbulent sea. Robert Darwin gave the fossil to the Royal Society of London, and William Stukeley wrote a paper about it, which was published the following year. The ichthyosaur looks like a cheerful warrior. Most shells are dextral, meaning if you hold the shell so the spire is up and the aperture is facing you, the aperture will usually be on your right side. It's hard to say what's more remarkable about this serpentine sea monster: it's precise aim in dousing a seal with a waterspout from its own head, or its ability to wriggle on the water's surface. The monster lifted its head so high that it seemed to be higher than the crow's nest on the mainmast. Van Duzer notes that some of Gastaldi's 16th-century maps showed creatures such as camels and elephants on the giant landmass assumed to exist in the Southern Hemisphere — even though naturalists of his time knew that cold conditions likely predominated in both polar regions. But according to modern ichthyologist Theodore Pietsch, Renard's book should not be written off as worthless. Talk amongst yourselves. For years, fossilized shark teeth were believed to be tongues of serpents turned to stone by Saint Paul, and hence were named glossopetrae , or "tongue stones. Live Science. Year of sighting: "Witness": Mrs. First published at the dawn of the 17th century, and reprinted years after the author's death, A Restitution of Decayed Intelligence in Antiquities Concerning the Most Noble and Renowned English Nation includes the first known illustration of British fossils. Although many exotic flora and fauna from Asia were regularly shipped to Lisbon during the 16th century, the Portuguese rarely published descriptions. Scientists said that's an important ecological phenomenon that highlights the versatility of the Tanystropheus and the complexity of ecosystems at that time. This jellyfish is far out, dude — and far under. Sunfish, in general, are the heaviest fish in the sea, with skeletons made of bone. Giant shipworms called Kuphus polythalamia , however, have remained an unseen mystery for hundreds of years — until April. The sea rhino was likely inspired by a real animal, but not one that ever lived in the ocean. The Roman Sea Devil, he pointed out, didn't have horns. The teeth are shaped like those of a shark. He didn't connect glossopetrae to sharks, but instead recommended them as an antidote for snake venom, to be mixed in wine or water. Now, according to a paper published Dec. Unlike the "rapier-billed" animals known as swordfish and sawfish today, the animals bearing these names during the Renaissance might have been inspired by the orca, or killer whale. He soon suspected something was off. The Sea Monk is firstly a cephalopod. Nineteen years later, Faujas published a description of the reptile. Olaus compared the ray's kind actions to those of the dolphin, also believed to come to the aid of human swimmers in danger. But shark deities exhibited their worst behavior not as unalloyed sharks, but as shark-human hybrids. Some of his contemporaries were starting to do just that, recognizing that superficial characteristics didn't tell the whole story. He also recommended "casting out huge great Vessels, that hinders this Monsters passage, or for him to play with all. This image looks like neither. Sea Monster! Reviews

Sunfish, in general, are the heaviest fish in the sea, with skeletons made of bone. These begin with good works but do not persevere to the end because of greed, pride, and love of wicked gain. Larger images available: excavation fossil. The blowhole, issuing a plume, isn't bad. Another is E. In fairness, Edestus was not easy to identify. It's not surprising that the animals would be more realistic given that Barentsz earned a reputation for accurate depictions of landmasses of the Arctic regions. Year of sighting: "Witness": Captain A. The most interesting creature is the one in the left half of the image carrying a human passenger. Rudwick By the late 18th century, Europe's savants had begun wrapping their brains around the concept of an ancient Earth that had both predated humans by an unimaginable time span and crawled with strange creatures. Century: 13th Originally published in: Medieval manuscript Image appears at: A Sawfish Digital image courtesy of the Getty's Open Content Program Discussed in: Physiologus translated by Michael Curley and Sea Monsters by Joseph Nigg In literature and maps from the Middle Ages and Renaissance, creatures known as the swordfish, sawfish and Ziphius "morphed from one animal into another under different names," in the words of Joseph Nigg. Surrounding the Earth on the church ceiling is an ocean populated by an assortment of hybrid creatures, each one a land animal mixed with a fish. Not long after Pomet's book was published, the narwhal was identified as a "false unicorn. The Roman Sea Devil, he pointed out, didn't have horns. A slightly less forgivable mistake is the plesiosaur's serpentine neck. The world's heaviest bony fish was caught off the coast of Japan in , weighing in at a staggering 5, lbs. Working in the Netherlands, Clusius admitted that he couldn't dissect the fish to see their internal organs. Unlike true sharks, ghost sharks also known as chimaeras or ratfish propel themselves with their large pectoral fins, rather than their tails. They were, however, apprehensive about what they would find in their travels. This giant serpent slithered over the water in close proximity to ships and a densely populated coast. Cope also thought his new plesiosaur genus had a relatively short neck and very long tail, and that it relied more on its long tail than its flippers to move through the water. When respectable citizens vouched for the existence of such a creature and respectable judges ruled their testimony truthful, challenging the monster's existence was bad form indeed. Although many exotic flora and fauna from Asia were regularly shipped to Lisbon during the 16th century, the Portuguese rarely published descriptions. The sea rhino was likely inspired by a real animal, but not one that ever lived in the ocean. Niche partitioning in such a highly specialized, extraordinarily long-necked reptile reveals a less competitive side of evolution during the Triassic period. The so-called sea dragon's eye leers at the viewer, perhaps sizing up a potential meal. In the 16th century, naturalists weren't just grappling with unusual animals, but with their own methods of classifying them. Unlike small, wood- infesting shipworms, K. The plesiosaur might be on land for the necessity of laying eggs considering Waterhouse Hawkins painted this picture before paleontologists found evidence of live birth in those marine reptiles. He delivered detailed depictions to different kinds of sharks, including a hammerhead, advancing accuracy even a little further than Steno. Of Magnus's sea creatures, Gesner wrote, "It seems that he depicted many according to seafarers' tales rather than from life. His desire to defeat his arch-rival Marsh might have driving his conviction that he'd found something wholly unprecedented. This circular arrangement was actually part of a larger ornate page of mollusks. Stothers in Isis June issue For his portrayal of this beast, Aldrovandi relied on accounts from Antiquity. Van Duzer remarks, "This it seems that in the extravagant flying turtle we are to see a subtle advertisement for the publisher.

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Live Science. The ichthyosaur looks like a cheerful warrior. A generation later, Charles Darwin's grandfather, Erasmus, would puzzle over fossils turned up in canal excavation, animals only partially resembling modern life forms. Century: 13th Originally appeared in: Beastiary now housed in the Bodleian Library, Oxford Now appears in: Nature and Its Symbols by Lucia Impelluso and Stephen Sartarelli One legend about whales circulated by medieval Europeans was that the cetaceans could simply open their mouths and emit a sweet fragrance sweet to fish, anyway. One such animal was what Gesner termed the "boar whale. Besides pig-like snouts, they have dual-exhaust-style head spouts. This page from the second volume of his Physica Curiosa shows a motley assortment of sea monsters, including a fish resembling a monk upper left , a marine monster looking suspiciously like a bishop lower right , and two chimerical creatures with long, fishy tails. It might have been based on observations of a real animal, such as a whale or giant squid. But the circumstances of the anatomical study were, by today's standards, pretty odd. Given the abundance of extant and extinct reptiles, such as crocodiles, with short necks and long tails, Cope's mistake was kind of understandable. Unfortunately, many of them were superstitious mariners. By the time he was thrown into the sea, however, he had bewitched a dolphin who came to his rescue. The Whirlpool, or Prister, is of the kind of Whales, two hundred Cubits long, and is very cruel. Seventy years later, Alexander Winchell did two admirable things: He called Denys de Montfort's depiction a sailor's yarn, but also suggested, "the unexplored depths of the ocean conceal the forms of octopods that far surpass in magnitude any of the species known to science. The face of this creature resembles that of a human more than a fish, with eyes positioned on the front of the head and the bridge of a nose. The sea rhino was likely inspired by a real animal, but not one that ever lived in the ocean. These fish carcasses and shark teeth must have looked outlandish to the visitors to Kircher's museum, but fish like these swim in the sea today. Expanded image available. This picture suggests that the painter had some idea of what an elephant trunk looks like — notable since medieval Europeans didn't often see elephants. Marshall, K. This page from one of his books shows a hammerhead shark and the tooth of a white shark. Other interpretations have placed the whorl on the tip of the tail, or on top of the animal where the dorsal fin would be. Poorly preserved specimens and confusing illustrations meant that the two animals weren't recognized as the same thing until the end of the 17th century. A putto rides a sea monster, one sporting the head of a jackal, a mouth full of sharp teeth and a protruding tongue and, apparently, mutton chops. In the 16th century, Olaus Magnus opined, "They roam about in all the seas looking for ships, and when they find one they leap up, for in that way they are able to sink and destroy it the more quickly. Century: 13th Originally published in: Medieval manuscript Image appears at: A Sawfish Digital image courtesy of the Getty's Open Content Program Discussed in: Physiologus translated by Michael Curley and Sea Monsters by Joseph Nigg In literature and maps from the Middle Ages and Renaissance, creatures known as the swordfish, sawfish and Ziphius "morphed from one animal into another under different names," in the words of Joseph Nigg. Not only does it provide a picture of natural history in Renard's time, it also gives a picture, albeit a distorted one, of wildlife in the waters around Ambon, Indonesia. Van Duzer notes that some of Gastaldi's 16th-century maps showed creatures such as camels and elephants on the giant landmass assumed to exist in the Southern Hemisphere — even though naturalists of his time knew that cold conditions likely predominated in both polar regions. But according to modern ichthyologist Theodore Pietsch, Renard's book should not be written off as worthless. Faujas's interpretation wasn't quite as accurate as the pictures. This sort of behavior is known as kleptopredation — stealing a predator's feast by swallowing up the predator and its prey at the same time — and, according to a study published Nov. Rudwick In keeping with the artistic convention of making the prehistoric Earth look perpetually apocalyptic, this scene shows moonlight and menacing clouds over a turbulent sea. Nineteen years later, Faujas published a description of the reptile. How did the frill-toothed shark get its name? Robert Darwin gave the fossil to the Royal Society of London, and William Stukeley wrote a paper about it, which was published the following year. Basking sharks are among the largest fish alive today, and can measure up to 40 feet. It inhabits a canvas populated with other dragon-like prehistoric monsters. The river-dwelling reptile would have been about "the size of a car" — measuring between 13 and 16 feet 4 and 5 m long when it was alive, the researchers from the University of Calgary said. Year: Scientist: W. The strange reptile -- resembling a real-life Loch Ness Monster or a prehistoric crocodile crossed with a giraffe -- was first described in and first reconstructed in For decades, scientists erroneously thought the whopper was a species of sunfish called Mola mola. Stukeley described the fossil as "a rarity, the like whereof has not been observ'd before in this Island. If their legends are any indication, however, Pacific islanders — who spent much more time around the animals — respected sharks more than they loathed them, and deified some sharks. Spotted near a previously unexplored seamount roughly 9, feet 3, m below sea level in a remote region of the Pacific Ocean near American Samoa, the ethereal invertebrate looks like a UFO and may be a brand-new species of jellyfish. This context shaped both scientific conceptions and artistic depictions of the aquatic creatures, giving rise to assumptions that they were inherently violent. The new interpretation shows a wide, flat, vacuum-style mouth designed to scrape algae off rocks.

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