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GIANT KRAKENS MAY STILL BE LURKING BENEATH THE SEA
October 12 2011
Reno, NV – All myths have a place in fact, no matter how ridiculous or extreme they might. In the past, myths were created to explain the unexplainable and to scare little children into behaving, while today they are created to sell movies and newspapers, but the roots are the same as they always have been.
Today, though, we realize that these things are in fact mythological and no matter where they are based in reality, the truth is far from the fiction. Zombies, as an example, do exist in the real world but they aren’t the living dead bent on eating human flesh and taking over the world. The truth is far more mundane.
Some myths, though, may in fact be closer to the truth than we would like to believe and one of those, the fearsome Kraken, may be much closer to reality than any other, at least according to a new discovery.
That discovery, 9 45-foot Ichthyosaur skeletons at the bottom of a dried sea bed in Nevada, has led to speculation that the feared maritime monster may in fact have been real at one time and may still be roaming the Earth’s oceans today, waiting to pounce on unsuspecting sailors and drag them down to Davy Jones locker.
“In the fossil bed, some of the shonisaur vertebral disks are arranged in curious linear patterns with almost geometric regularity, McMenamin explained.The proposed Triassic kraken, which could have been the most intelligent invertebrate ever, arranged the 
vertebral discs in double line patterns, with individual pieces nesting in a fitted fashion as if they were part of a puzzle,” read a press release from the Geological Society of America, in part.
Octopus are known to arrange skeletal remains in similar ways, and considering the size of the prey, the suspect for the killing is naturally a really large relative of that animal, leading to the Kraken speculation.
The Kraken, according to maritime mythology, was a giant creature that rose from the depths and swallowed ships whole. Despite our best efforts and constant maritime use in the modern world, no such creature has ever been found.
“It is a strange site and a very unusual pattern, there is no doubt about that. This likely would not have been a natural demise and octopi and their relatives are very intelligent and seem to perform complicated death rituals. It is very possible that a large relative in the past did kill these animals, but there is no real evidence of that. Well, none at all really,” said Scrape TV Zoology analyst Cambridge Walker. “Because of that speculation as to the source, especially something so dramatic, is really foolhardy at best. I mean if these creature did exist we likely would have discovered them by now. 
We are constantly on the sea and ships aren’t vanishing. Of course that could be because the Kraken’s are feeding on something else, say Loch Ness monsters, and they will come after us once that food supply runs out, but that is really just speculative. Scary to be sure, but speculative. Hopefully if they do exist, though, they won’t run out of Nessies. That would be bad news.”
Further speculation postulates that alien creatures may have come to our planet and killed all the Krakens, allowing for humans to travel across the seas.
Anna Phillips, Science Correspondent
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