![]() ![]() ![]() Analysing stories of sea serpents from the 14th century to the 1800s, Ellis argues that a giant squid’s arms trailing the surface of the ocean could resemble the coils of a snake, and that the pointed stabilising fins at the tip of its man-sized mantle could make for a snout through the eyes of a fisherman. Richard Ellis, author of the 1998 book The Search for the Giant Squid, agrees with Hearst’s assessment. He concluded that these sightings were in fact encounters with “Cuttlefish or giant Sea Squid … not any kind of real serpent, but the terrible gigantic Calamary.” He believed these sightings indeed bespoke a monster, but not the kind with a dragon’s head and a spined snake-like body of the like that prowl the edges of medieval maps. Two weeks later The Newcastle Morning Herald reported sightings of another sea monster off Scarborough, just up the coast from Bellambi: “It appeared to be at least 80ft long, like a huge eel, and at times raised a long neck in the air.”Īustralian naturalist David Hearst resisted the ensuing serpent hysteria. ![]()
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