Ilda Munoz
January 10, 2018
Period 4
“Monster of the Sea”
Imagine taking a nice, refreshing swim into the nice sandy beach, when all of a sudden a squid as big as a bus maybe even bigger started to swim towards you. How would you react? What would you be able to do? Would you be scared? Well let me tell you do not have to image them because they are real and live in the Ocean. Squids come in all sizes but at first no one knew these 60ft giants existed. I am going to tell you why the search for them started, when they finally got a grip on the search and when they had their breakthrough. Even though many people spotted the giant creature in the Ocean no one believed it was real because there was no physical evidence but their was sightings. Olivier de Kersauson was trying to break the record of sailing around the world “...when his boat came to a mysterious halt” (Hanna 11). They began trying to see into the water with flashlighting trying to figure out what was happening. Then a crew member that was under deck looked through a
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One scientist is Steve O’Shea which has been searching for the creature since 1996. He wasn't stopping at nothing since a fisherman showed him and actual corpse of one. He then unlocked many thing about the Giants such as; they could reach up to 1,00 pounds, grow to almost 60ft, live thousands of feet beneath the surface, have eyes the size of basketballs and their reactions all amazingly fast. O’Shea only came close to capturing one in 2001 when he caught the babies of one “...each about the size of a grasshopper” (Hanna 13). He wanted to raise them in safety, without knowing the tank was made from materials that were toxic to squid. He was devastated, even though he was crying and heart broken he pulled the corpses out himself. O’Shea was a huge help to discovering these enormous creatures yet he wasn't the one hit the break
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Cephalopods certainly look alien, so it is hardly surprising that science fiction writers have hijacked their characteristics for imaginary aliens. An octopus has three hearts that pump blue-green blood around its body, using a copper- rather than iron-based carrier for oxygen. Its eight tentacles are covered in suckers that enable it to amble, probe and manipulate with great dexterity. When in danger or enraged, it can switch to jet propulsion, and if danger persists it can eject an ink cloud of confusion and darkness. An octopus has few hard body parts (beak and eyes only), making its body infinitely malleable. It can thread itself through a hole not much larger than the diameter of its eyeball. Studies have shown that octopi have very similar
... are usually seen swimming in large schools. They are capable of great bursts of speed—up to 23 mph, by utilizing a highly advanced form of water-jet propulsion. Of the 375 known species, they can range in size from 8 inches to 60 feet long. It is the largest of all aquatic invertebrates. Depending on the species, squids can live from 1.5 to 3 years.
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Throughout history, we have seen many animals that have lived on Earth and are no longer alive. However, there is a specific species such as the Megalodon, that though once thought to be extinct, has been speculated to still being alive today. Megalodon are gigantic sharks the size of a greyhound bus with teeth the size of the palm of your hand or maybe even bigger. The Megalodon went “extinct” due to the lack of prey because of major changes in the environment around them. The reason why there has been speculation is because in these recent years past there have been many sightings of sharks with the description of being huge in size.
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