Theres lots of stories from history of sea monsters, so i thought i'd post a few drawings of these beasts...

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"Here be dragons . . ."

Third one down looks like a fairly modern drawing.

I liked the third one!!!!
I better set it to my pictures...

Ahhh, the monsters of olde. My fav was the Kraken, of course. A real sea monster!!

I love 'ye olde' art depicting ancient beasts or serpants! I always love how the creatures look like. They look so grotesque and so bizarre. Thanks for posting!

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hahaha some of them really are just stupid!

Nice... I've always been fascinated with old art like that.

Leviathan! The best!

I've literally just come back from Cornwall and everyone is flogging these old maps that are copies from a 16th century survey, the county of cornwall is shown and in the surrounding sea there are some fantastic sea monsters, just like the ones above. People in the 16th century must have been scared to go into the water. Except in cornwall that is, where, as far as I can tell, not even hurricanes will keep them out of it if the waves are good!

http://webhome.idirect.com/~donlong/monste...ES/midgards.gif
the Midgard Serpent, which I also love.
http://webhome.idirect.com/~donlong/monste...GES/midgard.gif
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http://webhome.idirect.com/~donlong/monste...AGES/Kraken.gif
a kraken......
http://webhome.idirect.com/~donlong/monste...MAGES/kappa.gif
a japanese kappa, and the only picture that accuratly fits the mythological descriptions ive ever found.
http://webhome.idirect.com/~donlong/monste...GES/hippoca.gif
hippocampus, stupid things. i hate them.

I love the whole hippocampus thing, it's just ridiculous, it's the official name for a seahorse, so people just start being silly and turning it into some mythical creature. And this coming from someone who thinks griffons are fairly plausible!

yes, an enourmous half-horse fish that likes to wreck ships and confuse sailors, and laughs a grunting 'yuk yuk' type laugh.. makes perfect sense.

most of those look like modern fish if you look closely

is a mermaid a sea monster?, look at the head on this beauty

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hmmmm look at the way the water comes out of its mouth, maybe they saw a whale, and couldn't make out what it was, who knows.....

im sure most of these come from whales. sailors seem to have very poor patern recognization. look at all the crazy things they thought manatees were.


Sciu-Crak, pretty much a variation of the kraken.


a merman?

a postage stamp.


Year: 1577
Scientist/artist: Jan Wierix
Originally published in: Three Beached Whales
Now appears in: Monsters of the Sea by Richard Ellis
This 16th-century engraving was actually a pretty good likeness, except for the extra blowhole. Two blowholes emerge from a "nose" that looks like it belongs to a terrestrial mammal. Wierix pictured three stranded whales, several more cetaceans behind them in the ocean and terrified humans fleeing up the beach.

Year: 1558
Scientist/artist: Conrad Gesner
Originally published in: De Piscium & Aquatilium Animantum Natura
Now appears in: Monsters of the Sea by Richard Ellis and Merchants and Marvels edited by Smith and Findlen
Hercules battled with a hydra in ancient Greek mythology, and this imaginary animal has suffered from a rotten reputation ever since. Unfortunately, the hydra has a living relative, of sorts: the octopus Even now, misconceptions persist about the octopus (also called the "devil fish"), and it has been doomed to play the villain in more than one B movie. Although this illustration only shows seven heads, the hydra was sometimes said to have nine, and two new ones would appear whenever one was chopped off. This depiction of a hydra was typical of the time, i.e., a picture copied from another picture — probably taken from a publication about the Apocalypse.

Year: 1868
Originally published in: Harper's Weekly
Now appears in: Monsters of the Sea by Richard Ellis
This "wonderful fish" described in Harper's Weekly was later identified as a basking shark, and the depiction is reasonably accurate if you ignore the legs. The shark had partially decomposed by the time it was described, and that may have lead to the assumption that it was a sea monster with legs. The colossal size is no mistake. Basking sharks are among the largest fish alive today, and can measure up to 40 feet.

Year: 1854
Scientist: Japetus Steenstrup
Now appears in: The Search for the Giant Squid by Richard Ellis
In the 16th century, two naturalists, Rondelet and Pierre Belon, produced descriptions of animals they termed the Sea Monk, or monk-fish. Centuries later, a very talented naturalist, Japetus Steenstrup, gave a presentation in which he compared Rondelet's illustration (on the left) and Belon's illustration (on the right) to the likeness of a squid captured in 1853. He also took into consideration a 16th-century description of the Sea Monk by Conrad Gesner. Steenstrup made an amazing deduction: "Could we, given these bits of information of how the Monk was conceived at that time, come so near to it that we could recognize to which of nature's creatures it should most probably be assigned? The Sea Monk is firstly a cephalopod."

--source of some of this stuffs--

the leviathan is the best. i posted a topic the other day about a monster in a lake in quebec,a sea serpent...i heard it is a leviathan, most wonderfull monster i ever heard of.

site that shows what sailors may have seen....

http://www.lochnessinvestigation.org/Kraken.html

That's a good link!

if you meant the link i posted, i try not to link to rubbish... real animals are mistaken for sea monsters by the look of it....

nice link indeed. hey, you can get alot of good old sea-monster pictures by searching for 'nicor monster'. youve got to use the 'monster' part at the end, though, because theres apparently an investment company named 'nicor' too.

cetus, from the greek byth cetus and andromeda, a rather peculiar sea monster.


hydras.

triton (this picture looks new, but its actually a fairly old one)

so hydras are popular? cool i thought they were only created by warcraft3....i love this game lol...hydras are cool

in the original myth, hydras had nine separate heads on nine separate necks, and a snake-like body without legs. besides venom so deadly it could kill a god, it also breathed out a cloud of venomous gas with every exhalation. in actual mythology, the first labor of hercules was to kill a particularly ferocious hydra. although the hydra of hercules was a land animal just like snakes, later myths that sprung off of it placed in in underwater caves and shore-line cliffs.

something from a greek myth im not familiar with, called skylla the drakaina.


a ketea.

ahuizotl, a creature in the legends of Central America. In appearance it is half human and half monkey, with a hand coming out of the end of its tail. The Ahuizotl is greatly feared as an eater of human flesh, and it particularly likes eyes, teeth and nails. Being a water creature, it uses its tail hand to snatch people walking too close to the water's edge, or fishermen. Sometimes it cries and when people come near it to see what is wrong, it grabs them.

if thats a kappa than i have a crapy imagination

you drew a picture of a kappa from a brief description, and it doesnt look like that one? is that what you meant?

ok sorry but not sure how all this still works so i'm putting down a site with alot of awsome pics enjoy Here

, hey thats where i got some of my pictures from, and so did a few other people by the looks of it

most of those are miskaken idendities

what do you mean? like, seeing a whale and thinking its a giant snake?

I think sea monsters are fake all hype. I think back in the ol' days sailers must have seen a Giant Squid or something like that and thought it was a monster or something.

giant squids dont count as sea monsters?