facts verse presents biggest sea
monsters ever number one Leviathan the
Leviathan was a very large sea monster
that was said to be close to 40 feet
long this creature was mentioned several
times in Scrolls folklore in the Bible
and in Asian religion many people
believe that this creature was the
embodiment of evil and others believed
that it was just a very large sea
creature
some people even believed that these
creatures had supernatural powers
regardless of what people believed when
a sailor encountered one of these
creatures he was terrified
number 2 Kraken the Kraken has never
been seen therefore its existence has
never been proven however most people
believe in its existence it is known in
mythology as a giant squid that was
capable of sinking ships over the years
this creature has been seen in books
such as 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
it was also included in the Clash of the
Titans and Pirates of the Caribbean -
movies the Kraken is said to be a cross
between a Pacific octopus and a giant
squid number 3 the gigantic octopus this
sea monster was known to be able to sink
ships with ease it was known to reach
lengths of 20 feet long the stories of
this creature go back to the 1700s while
the existence of this creature was never
proven people believed that it really
did exist after finding large pieces of
tentacles and carcasses washed up on the
beach these creatures were said to be up
to 30 feet long and they put fear in the
hearts of all sailors number 4 Megalodon
this is one of the scariest and biggest
sea monsters ever the Megalodon is a
relative of the great white shark the
only difference is that Megalodon makes
these sharks look tiny
the massive creature could grow up to 98
feet long which is five times the size
of a great white shark according to
scientists these creatures ate dolphins
whales and giant sea turtle
edie thing this monster could fit into
its mouth was dinner as the temperatures
changed and the food supply began to
decline this creature could not sustain
itself and two became extinct there are
many people who believe that there are
still a few of these creatures left
living deep under the sea however it has
not been proven number five the bloop
there are two theories about the bloop
one theory is that it is a large
mysterious sea creature the other theory
is that it simply is the sound of the
ice shelf breaking in Antarctica the
people who believe in the creature are
sure that it's there and they believe
that the National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration is simply
trying to cover-up the monsters
existence by blaming it on ice
the creature is said to be a massive
squid that lives on the bottom of the
ocean because so much of the ocean and
the ocean floor has been unexplored
there is a chance this creature really
does exist
number six Jormungandr in Norse
mythology the Sherman Gander is said to
be a giant sea monster it is said to be
one of the children of Loki and it is a
large serpent according to the stories
this sea monster bites off its own tail
to symbolize its immortality and
eternity while this creature has no
supernatural powers it does have
poisonous blood
this creature is so terrifying it's a
good thing that it only exists in
stories number 7 Hydra of lerna this
creature is famous in Greek mythology
according to the stories that the
creatures head is severed it will grow
to more the purpose of this creature was
to guard the underworld much to Hercules
dismay the creature is said to have had
poison running through its blood which
made the fish in the water the inedible
it even had a constellation named after
it number 8 Sir Ian Cronin this is one
of the largest sea monsters in Scotland
it is said to be an aquatic dinosaur
that's able to change itself from a
minnow to a giant sea monster the
creature is so large
so fierce it's believed to devour seven
whales at once number nine
shasta soros this was a giant creature
that was said to live during the
Triassic period over 200 million years
ago it looked like a modern dolphin
however it was much larger and much
meaner it was over 65 feet long and it
was one of the most fearsome predators
in the ocean
luckily for humans during the Triassic
period this creature was a suction
feeder that fed mostly on fish number
ten daga soros this was one of the top
predators in the sea during the Jurassic
period it was first discovered in
Germany and it looked like a cross
between a reptile and a fish over the
years researchers have found fossils all
over the world including Argentina
Russia and England this pearson creature
could grow up to 16 feet long and it's
unique teeth patterns lead scientists to
believe that it was one of the top
predators in the sea dallas ooh Madonn
the name of this creature translates to
Sealord in Greek this monster could grow
up to 40 feet long and it had flippers
that were close to 7 feet long this
allowed the creature to swim in deep
water making it dangerous to just about
every creature in the water it lived all
the way through the Cretaceous period
but became extinct when new and larger
predators took over the ocean subscribe
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