Since ancient times, fishermen and sailors all over the world have told terrible stories about trolls in the sea. According to legend, these sea monsters are often huge and grotesque, and even have seven or nine heads. One of the most famous is the "Norwegian Sea Monster" described by Bishop Bergen Pompidan in Norwegian Natural History in 752. It is said that "its back, or the upper part of its body, looks like an island about a mile and a half." ..... Later, a few shiny tips or horns appeared, sticking out of the water and reaching higher and higher. Some of them are as high as the masts of medium-sized ships. These things are probably monsters' weapons, and it is said that they can pull the biggest battleship down to the bottom of the sea. "
/kloc-since the 20th century, with the development of modern zoology, the absurd legend of sea monsters has gradually disappeared. But there are still some reports that deserve our attention:
186 1 year 1 1.00 On the way from Cadiz, Spain, to Tenerife Island, the French warship "arreton" met a sea monster that was only 5-6 meters long and had two meters long tentacles. Captain Ciel later wrote: I think it was this big octopus that caused a lot of controversy. Many people thought it was fiction. Ciel and the crew put it in the middle with a harpoon and wrapped a rope around its tail. But the monster waved wildly, broke the harpoon and ran away. There is only one piece of meat weighing about 40 Jin left on the rope.
1978165438+1On 2 October, three fishermen in Newfoundland, Canada, found a huge marine animal stranded on the beach because of low tide. Fishermen say it is 7 meters long, and some horned hands are more than 1 1 meter long. The diameter of the sucker on the horn is 10 cm, and the eyes are full of faces. The fisherman hooked it with a hook, and the monster struggled for a while and soon died.
Belgian zoologist Heifmans collected and analyzed 587 reports of finding sea monsters from 1639 to 1966, ruled out possible mistakes, intentional deception and unclear situations, and found 358 cases credible.
He entered all the details in these reports into the computer for analysis and got nine different oceans. Although there are still exaggerated elements in these reports, at least one of them has been confirmed by the sea troll that people think is "impossible": the king squid.
In the 1970s, there were several cases in which the remains of giant squid washed up on the coast of Canada, and at least one of them was still alive. With the help of these entities, people finally know something about giant squid.
The king squid lives in the deep waters of the Pacific Ocean and the Atlantic Ocean. It is about 20 meters long and weighs about 2-3 tons. It is the largest retarded vertebrate in the world. Its temperament is extremely fierce, it feeds on fish and invertebrates, and it can fight with giant whales. It is often reported abroad that the king squid fights with the sperm whale. According to records, once a king squid was witnessed holding a sperm whale tightly with its thick horn hand and sucker, and the sperm whale tried its best to bite the tail of the king squid. Two behemoths in the sea rolled violently, stirring up turbid waves, and then both sank to the bottom of the water, not knowing where to go. Most of this kind of struggle is that sperm whales win, but there have also been cases where the king squid strangles whales by holding their nostrils with their hands.
From this point of view, the sea monsters encountered by people in the two years mentioned above, 186 1 and 1878, are definitely king squid. How big is the biggest king squid? This question is difficult to answer. People once measured a squid with a length of 17.07 meters, and the diameter of the sucker on its horn was 9.5 cm. However, from the captured sperm whale, a sucker scar with a diameter of more than 40 cm was found.
It is speculated that the king squid fighting with this whale may be more than 60 meters long. If there is such a big king squid, it is not far from the legendary Norwegian sea monster.