Sea serpent

As a sea serpent is called in the cryptozoology a series of snake-like, aquatic animals. Despite numerous and partially credible eyewitnesses whose existence has not been proven. According to reports, this sea monster said to have been most frequently seen on the east coast of North America and in the larger bays on the coast of Norway.

Reports

The earliest mentions of sea snakes have been handed down from ancient times. Thus, in the ancient Egyptian myth of Mehen, a giant, living in the sea serpent reported that attacks the boat of the sun god Ra. 12 The Roman poet Virgil describes in the Aeneid two sea snakes with glowing red eyes and purple crests, the Laocoon and his sons devour. 42 the Swedish clergyman Olaus Magnus makes his works in 1555 Carta Marina and Historia de Gentibus septentrionalibus next to the Norwegian sea serpent, numerous other sea monsters in word and image is, their description was used by later authors. So Magnus ' sea monster found for example in Conrad Gesner's Historia Animalium important work. The sea serpent was said to be about 7 feet long by Magnus and possessed a diameter of 60 centimeters. The sea serpent is also to have possessed as fire glowing eyes, one covered with brown scales and a body surrounded by a mane head. You should have fed alongside octopus, lobsters and crabs on occasion of cattle on the pastures. :42 -45

At the beginning of the 18th century described the German adventurer Martin Winterkorn Gerst the great sea serpent, which he claims to have seen in fishing trips in the North Atlantic. 1977 was salvaged by the Japanese fishing trawler Zuiyo Maru off the coast of New Zealand on a ten -meter-long, kite -like, highly decomposed carcasses. Because of the unusual shape of the remains was partly suspected that there might have been at the carcass of a plesiosaur. However, due to a tissue sample of the carcass could be identified as a basking shark. :71 -72

Interpretation

In the decay process of basking sharks sometimes occur grotesque shapes that were shown to have been held in many other cases for carcasses of sea monsters. Between 1984 and 1997, published numerous publications, which eventually designated the Fund due to conflicting evidence conclusively as " unsolved mystery ".

For the possibility of the existence of elongated, snake -like marine animals, the presence of similar extinct animals such as Hydrarchus or Zeuglodon is headed, but can the above information is based on the fact that you kept the dozen dolphins floating, large sharks, in groups floating basking sharks or the Riesenseetang for the much talked about sea snake has.

However, the most likely candidate in the still existing marine animals could be the belt fish Regalecus glesne, up to a 17 meter long deep sea fish with an elongated body. He has a horse-like head, and a comb that is very similar to a mane. He has the greatest similarity, if one goes by the reports. Every now and then comes the animal in fishing nets.

The mythological sea snakes from legends and folk beliefs are not identical with the sea snakes from the biological group of marine reptiles.