UNDERSEA MONSTERS TODAY

It can be said that most sea monsters are real animals, misidentified under extreme circumstances. In 1493, Christopher Columbus “quite distinctly saw three mermaids” off the coast of Haiti. “They are not so beautiful as they are said to be,” he remarked

Stories that appeal to the imagination are hard to dispel, especially when there is no way to disprove them. The whale shark, the world’s biggest fish, was only a mid 19th-century discovery, and as each new whale or shark is discovered, the chances of there still being a complete outlier in hiding – something really out there in terms of what’s possible – seem small. Here are some fascinating undersea creatures that were, and are, nothing short of bizarre.