One Legend Found, Many Still to Go

Further on the giant squid as well as other enigmas, this time from the New York Times:

"THE human instinct to observe nature has always been mixed with a tendency to embroider upon it. So it is that, over the ages, societies have lived alongside not only real animals, but a shadow bestiary of fantastic ones - mermaids, griffins, unicorns and the like. None loomed larger than the giant squid, the kraken, a great, malevolent devil of the deep. 'One of these Sea-Monsters,' Olaus Magnus wrote in 1555, 'will drown easily many great ships.'"


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