The Kraken

03/03/21 • 17 min

Monstrous cephalopods of legend!
As mentioned in the episode, copy and paste these URLs to see the Kraken's real-world cousins in action!
First living giant squid ever photographed in its natural habitat!
http://www.cnn.com/videos/world/2013/01/08/exp-early-ellis-giant-squid.cnn
A recent video of a giant squid in the Gulf of Mexico!
http://www.cnn.com/videos/us/2019/06/22/giant-squid-orig.cnn
A rare surface encounter with a giant squid in Toyama Bay, Japan!
http://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2015/dec/30/rare-giant-squid-encounter-toyama-bay-japan-video
Visit Scholar Minor at http://www.ursaminorcreations.com!
Overhead forest photo by Spencer Watson via Unsplash.
Book spine photo by Annie Spratt via Unsplash.
Music: "Wonderland" by Alexander Nakarada (www.serpentsoundstudios.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons BY Attribution 4.0 License
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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Bassett, Fletcher S. Sea Phantoms: Or, Legends and Superstitions of the Sea and of Sailors. United States: Morrill, Higgins & Company, 1892.

Encyclopaedia Metropolitana: Insufficient- Mashy. United Kingdom: B. Fellowes, 1845.

Hann, Michael. "A monster from the depths of our imagination." The Guardian. March 1, 2006. Accessed March 1, 2021. https://www.theguardian.com/science/2006/mar/02/g2

"Monographic Revision of the Cephalopods of the Atlantic Coast, from Cape Hatteras to Newfoundland." Report of the Commissioner for 1879, Part VII. United States: Bureau of Fisheries, 1882.

Salvador, Rodrigo B. and Barbara M. Tomotani. "The Kraken: when myth encounters science." Historia, Ciencias, Saude - Manguinhos. V. 21, N. 3. Rio de Janeiro: 2014.

Salvador, Rodrigo B. "Kraken: The real-life origins of the legendary sea monster." The Independent. January 4, 2016. Accessed March 1, 2021. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/kraken-real-life-origins-legendary-sea-monster-a6796241.html

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03/03/21 • 17 min

Scholar Minor - The Kraken

Transcript

"Below the thunders of the upper deep,

Far, far beneath in the abysmal sea,

His ancient, dreamless, uninvaded sleep

The Kraken sleepeth: faintest sunlights flee

About his shadowy sides; above him swell

Huge sponges of millennial growth and height;

And far away into the sickly light,

From many a wondrous grot and secret cell

Unnumbered and enormous polypi

Winnow with giant arms in the slumbering green.

There hath he lain for ages,

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