Book Description
Explores the myth, legend, scientific documentation, and fiction inspired by sea monsters.
Author : Bob Eggleton
Publisher :
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 35,61 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Marine animals
ISBN : 9780879518608
Explores the myth, legend, scientific documentation, and fiction inspired by sea monsters.
Author : Alex Woolf
Publisher :
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 16,93 MB
Release : 2017-07-06
Category : Animals, Fossil
ISBN : 9781912006373
Millions of years ago, the oceans teemed with creatures that were every bit as fascinating and ferocious as the dinosaurs that ruled the land. These were the marine reptiles, including the massive-jawed pliosaur and the long-necked plesiosaur. This gruesome guide explores how these awesome creatures lived, how they hunted, and how we know about them today. Packed with fact-filled, easy-to-read text, quirky illustrations and side panels providing more icky information.
Author : Michael J. Everhart
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 16,41 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781426200854
A companion volume to the 3-D "Sea Monsters" film reveals the terrifying predators that lurked in the underwater Cretaceous world, in a volume that also profiles the scientists who study these ancient monsters and the technology that made the film possible.
Author : Alex Woolf
Publisher : Franklin Watts
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 29,18 MB
Release : 2018
Category : Animals, Fossil
ISBN : 9780531269022
"Introduces the reader to sea monsters."--
Author : Judith Jango-Cohen
Publisher : Millbrook Press
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 12,75 MB
Release : 2008-01-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0822567474
Describes some mythical sea monsters and animals that could have been mistaken for them.
Author : Richard Ellis
Publisher : Globe Pequot
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,80 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Cryptozoology
ISBN : 9781592289677
Few creatures have captured the imaginations of so many for so long as have monsters of the deep. Their history has been surprisingly consistent, the author notes. Most began as myths and then acquired a sense of reality when the existence of creatures resembling those chronicled in legend was documented. Ellis (Men and Whales) gives a superb account of marine monsters and their attendant myths, sightings, scientific discovery and biology. He describes only the best known and the best documented. He traces the mermaid to the manatee and dugong, Leviathan to the sperm whale, kraken to the giant squid and polyp to the octopus (sharks, however, remain sharks). He examines these monsters in art, literature and film, taking Jules Verne and Victor Hugo to task for their ignorance of biology, hysterical fantasy and unmitigated malice. Herman Melville, Arthur C. Clarke and Peter Benchley get better ratings. Of all the sighted monsters, only the giant squid (Architeuthis) retains its mythological and cryptozoological status, for its very existence is shrouded in mystery. Sharks have had a bad reputation throughout history, but until Jaws (1974) they did not figure prominently in literature. At the end of this engaging book, Ellis confesses to skepticism: "monsters, if they exist, have more to fear from us than we do from them.
Author : Anna Anderhagen
Publisher : ABDO
Page : 51 pages
File Size : 33,48 MB
Release : 2024-08-01
Category :
ISBN :
Are sea monsters real? In this title, readers learn about the history of sea monsters from ancient times to the present day, including research to discover the truth behind these cryptid sightings, why people believe, and scientific possibilities for sea monster sightings. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. A&D Xtreme is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.
Author : Joseph Nigg
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 48,61 MB
Release : 2014-01-03
Category : History
ISBN : 0226925188
The mythic creature expert and author of Phoenix takes readers through a bestiary of sea monsters featured on the famous 16th century map Carta Marina. In the sixteenth century, sea serpents, giant man-eating lobsters, and other monsters were thought to swim the waters of Norther Europe, threatening seafarers who ventured too far from shore. Thankfully, Scandinavian mariners had Olaus Magnus, who in 1539 charted these fantastic marine animals in his influential map of the Nordic countries, the Carta Marina. In Sea Monsters, mythologist Joseph Nigg brings readers face-to-face with these creatures and other magnificent components of Magnus’s map. Nearly two meters wide in total, the map’s nine wood-block panels comprise the largest and first realistic portrayal of the region. But in addition to its important geographic significance, Magnus’s map goes beyond cartography to scenes both domestic and mystic. Close to shore, Magnus shows humans interacting with common sea life—boats struggling to stay afloat, merchants trading, children swimming, and fisherman pulling lines. But from the offshore deeps rise some of the most terrifying sea creatures imaginable—like sea swine, whales as large as islands, and the Kraken. In this book, Nigg draws on Magnus’s own text to further describe and illuminate these inventive scenes and to flesh out the stories of the monsters. Sea Monsters is a stunning tour of a world that still holds many secrets for us land dwellers, who will forever be fascinated by reports of giant squid and the real-life creatures of the deep that have proven to be as bizarre and otherworldly as we have imagined for centuries. It is a gorgeous guide for enthusiasts of maps, monsters, and the mythic. “[A] beautiful new exploration of the Carta Marina.”—Wired
Author : Melvin Berger
Publisher : Turtleback Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,10 MB
Release : 2000-06
Category :
ISBN : 9780613248600
Uses a submarine trip to the bottom of the sea to introduce various deep-sea creatures, including the angler fish, octopus, and sperm whale
Author : Nigel Marven
Publisher :
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 13,99 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Nature
ISBN :
In prehistoric times there existed creatures bigger and often fiercer than dinosaurs, whose exploits have inspired more terrifying legends than any other group of animals. Their watery home has kept them hidden from view - until now. Monsters once again recreates the prehistoric world, giving us an insight into the underwater environment of that time and the strange and fascinating creatures that dwelt there. The leading wildlife television presenter, Nigel Marven, explores their world through a series of encounters, where he dives deep into the past and swims with these extraordinary reptiles and mammals. From the fearsome hunter, Liopleurodon, one of the biggest predators that ever existed, to Megalograptus, the most vicious of the spiny sea scorpions, the deadly prehistoric seas are vividly brought to life as we see these creatures through Nigel's eyes. Some of the ancestors of these predators exist today, but even the great white shark and blue whale cannot come close in threat and size to these prehistoric species. reconstruction of these creatures, with details of the modern sites, from New York to Egypt, where water once covered the land.