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September 2007
- New Yorkers Push 6-Foot Beached Shark Back to Sea
  
  New York Daily News | Sep 2, 07 8:53 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Never ones to shrink from a challenge, a group of sentimental New Yorkers yesterday pushed a struggling six-foot beached shark back to sea in a "Jaws-dropping" drama off the Rockaways, reports the New York Daily News. "It was freaking out. Its tail was flopping everywhere," said a 10-year-old swimmer. "Maybe it got separated from its family." More »
July 2007
- Giant Squid Storms Australia
  
  Associated Press | Jul 11, 07 11:26 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - A giant squid that weighs 550 pounds and measures 26 feet from the tip of its body to the end of its fearsome tentacles washed up on an Australian beach today. The rarely spotted sea creature is the largest specimen encountered since February, when fishermen in New Zealand netted a 33-foot catch that weighed 1,100 pounds. More »
May 2007
- Shark Births Fatherless Baby
  
  BBC | May 23, 07 2:50 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Irish and American scientists, using new techniques, confirmed that a female hammerhead shark at the Henry Doorly Zoo in Nebraska gave birth to a pup in 2001— without having sex. A male tiger shark was suspected to be the father at first, but the team's genetic analysis shows no sign of paternal DNA. More »
November 2005
- A Serpent, or at Least Its Tale, Resurfaces
  
  New York Times | Nov 12, 05
  
  ALAS, it's safe to assume that whatever Dick Affolter and Pete Bodette saw and photographed in Lake Champlain on a clear, still afternoon in July will not provide the Champ-ologists and cryptozoologists of the world with anything resembling proof that there really is a mysterious sea creature living in the lake, which stretches for 120 miles between the United States and Canada.It would be easier to roll your eyes and dismiss their murky video - and their vivid tale - of a huge, serpentlike sea creature that swam just beneath the surface for 45 minutes, if the two were not serious fishermen, upstanding...
- Scientists Find the T-Rex of Crocodiles
  
  New York Times | Nov 11, 05
  
  Scientists have nicknamed it Godzilla, but it really belongs in another movie, one not yet made but possibly titled: "Jaws Meets Jurassic Park."The creature, whose discovery is being announced today in the journal Science, is a large sea-dwelling crocodile that lived 135 million years ago, in the middle of the dinosaur era.Skip to next paragraphNational GeographicNicknamed Godzilla, the Dakosaurus andiniensis ruled the seas about 135 million years ago.Unlike most crocodiles today, this one possessed a snout that was short and stout, like that of Tyrannosaurus rex, and its foot-and-a-half-long...
April 2003
- Deep Sea Monster Squid Found
  
  jv.gilead.org.il | Apr 3, 03
  
  A rare and dangerous squid with eyes the size of dinner plates and scores of razor-sharp hooks to snag its prey has been caught by fishermen off Antarctica, New Zealand scientists said on Thursday.The half-grown female colossal squid is only the second intact example of the monster cephalopod known to have been found, said marine biologist Steve O'Shea of New Zealand's national museum.
March 1880
- MONSTERS OF THE OCEAN; THE DEVIL-FISH OF THE NORTH ATLANTIC.LECTURE
  
  New York Times | Mar 13, 80
  
  THE GIANT CEPHALOPODS ORSQUIDS--THEIR STRUCTURE AND HABITS--STORIES OF THE CAPTURE OF HUGE SPECIMENS. The eleventh, and next to the closing, lecture of the Mechanics' Course was delivered this evening, in the little theatre of the Sheffield Scientific School, by Prof. A.E. Verrill, of Yale College.