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Description
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Title: Kraken
Type: Sea Monster
Range: Undetermined
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Name: Giant Squid
Classification: [returnsearch]--> run_listings
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Subclass: Coleoidea
Order: Teuthida
Suborder: Oegopsina
Family: Architeuthidae

[Found/Class]-->Genus: Architeuthis
Range: Mid-water and deep oceans, global
Diet: deep sea fishes and related organisms
Temperment: documented as self-preservation, will go to any lengths to ensure survival, even biting off tentacles to escape danger
Cryptid Status: Confirmed

Monsters of myth and legend sometimes have a basis in fact. Such was the case with a beast called Kraken, a monster with multiple limbs and huge, horrible eyes that would attack boats and drag their crews into the dark, cold depths never to be seen again. A possible clue to the identity of this legendary creature may have been washing up on the beaches of the world for centuries- discoveries of enormous corpses washed up on the sands, bodies with many tentacles and large, dead eyes. The interesting thing was that these corpses did not bear the likeness of a monster, but rather that of a known, albiet smaller, sea animal: the squid.

The Kraken now had a face and a name, the "Giant Squid". It would be centuries before these discoveries went to the next level, that grand step from corpses to a living speciman. In 2005, the giant squid joined the world of the living with a series of history-making still images of a living giant squid in its natural habitat. In 2006, this was bolstered by the capture, on video, of a live giant squid.

From stories to corpses to living specimens, the Giant squid is without a doubt one of the greatest success stories for both Zoology and cryptozoology alike.

-Photoshop really saved my skin here, I was able to clean up the drawing and remove that terrible background "deep-ocean disaster" with wonderful precision

A page from the Confirmed Archives of The Cryptid Files: [link]

Description
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Title: Kraken
Type: Sea Monster
Range: Undetermined
Diet: possib-->[end_file]

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Name: Giant Squid
Classification: [returnsearch]--> run_listings
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Subclass: Coleoidea
Order: Teuthida
Suborder: Oegopsina
Family: Architeuthidae

[Found/Class]-->Genus: Architeuthis
Range: Mid-water and deep oceans, global
Diet: deep sea fishes and related organisms
Temperment: documented as self-preservation, will go to any lengths to ensure survival, even biting off tentacles to escape danger
Cryptid Status: Confirmed

Monsters of myth and legend sometimes have a basis in fact. Such was the case with a beast called Kraken, a monster with multiple limbs and huge, horrible eyes that would attack boats and drag their crews into the dark, cold depths never to be seen again. A possible clue to the identity of this legendary creature may have been washing up on the beaches of the world for centuries- discoveries of enormous corpses washed up on the sands, bodies with many tentacles and large, dead eyes. The interesting thing was that these corpses did not bear the likeness of a monster, but rather that of a known, albiet smaller, sea animal: the squid.

The Kraken now had a face and a name, the "Giant Squid". It would be centuries before these discoveries went to the next level, that grand step from corpses to a living speciman. In 2005, the giant squid joined the world of the living with a series of history-making still images of a living giant squid in its natural habitat. In 2006, this was bolstered by the capture, on video, of a live giant squid.

From stories to corpses to living specimens, the Giant squid is without a doubt one of the greatest success stories for both Zoology and cryptozoology alike.

-Photoshop really saved my skin here, I was able to clean up the drawing and remove that terrible background "deep-ocean disaster" with wonderful precision

A page from the Confirmed Archives of The Cryptid Files: [link]