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The Great are 3 sea monsters featured as bosses in the survival video game "Stranded Deep" The sea monster from Monkeybone is an inhabitant of Down Town and is performed by Nathan Stein. It resembles a piscine humanoid that is protruding from the back of its large seahorse-like mount.
Whimsical costume of Chessie the Chesapeake Bay Monster at the 4th annual Maryland Faerie Festival, 2008. In American folklore, Chessie is a sea monster said to live in the midst of the Chesapeake Bay. Claims of sightings appear in local media and regionally-themed books from 1936 onward.
The kraken (/ ˈ k r ɑː k ən /) [6] is a legendary sea monster of enormous size, per its etymology something akin to a cephalopod, said to appear in the sea between Norway and Iceland. It is believed that the legend of the Kraken may have originated from sightings of giant squid , which may grow to 12–15 m (40–50 feet) in length.
Explorer Samuel de Champlain spoke of the monster and a historic marker on the lakeshore lists purported sightings. Doubters say it’s a garfish. One photo exists of something in the lake, taken ...
Winged hippocamp in an Art Deco fountain, Kansas City, Missouri, (1937). The hippocampus or hippocamp, also hippokampos (plural: hippocampi or hippocamps; Ancient Greek: ἱππόκαμπος, from ἵππος, 'horse', and κάμπος, 'sea monster' [1]), often called a sea-horse [2] in English, [citation needed] is a mythological creature shared by Phoenician, [3] Etruscan, Pictish, Roman ...
The skull of a pliosaur, a prehistoric sea monster, was discovered on a beach in Dorset, England, and it could reveal secrets about these awe-inspiring creatures.
Sea monsters (2 C, 38 P) P. Piscine and amphibian humanoids (6 C, 28 P) S. Water spirits (10 C, 137 P) Pages in category "Mythological aquatic creatures"
Articles relating to sea monsters, beings from folklore believed to dwell in the sea and often imagined to be of immense size. Marine monsters can take many forms, including sea dragons, sea serpents, or tentacled beasts. They can be slimy and scaly and are often pictured threatening ships or spouting jets of water.