Real-life Monsters from the Animal Kingdom

[Professor Emeritus]

Someone else gotta explain the manatee / mermaid connection cause I heard that one 100 times and still don't get it

Dude HAD to be drunk as shyt had hm like on that poor sea animal.

Beer goggles or some shyt

Delirious sailors at sea with scurvy and no women on the ships is likely the origin.

So how long would you have to go without a woman before this started to look......

 

[The axe murderer]

He's not swimming. He's running alongside the bottom of the river then jumping off the bottom to attack.

And yet, for their size they're fast as shyt on land too. I'd be scared as hell to run into one face-to-face.

Imagine 4000 kg running straight at you at these speeds.

 

[The axe murderer]

So how long would you have to go without a woman before this started to look......

Dude lookin at that and thinking "hmmmmm but what if ariel gained a few pounds"

 

[FAH1223]

Shiiiiit and they kinda run fast on land too

My dad and uncle talk about Hippos chasing them in Somalia when they went outside of Mogadishu

 

[Professor Emeritus]

My dad and uncle talk about Hippos chasing them in Somalia when they went outside of Mogadishu

Somalia has hippos? I always think of Somalia as nothing but desert and coastline. Of course I'm ignorant as fukk just saying that.

 

[The axe murderer]

My dad and uncle talk about Hippos chasing them in Somalia when they went outside of Mogadishu

That must have been scary as hell
They kill like 3000 or more people every year

 

[Professor Emeritus]

Semi related but a mummified dinosaur is a crazy find for me


Miners Stumbled Upon 110 Million-Year-Old Dinosaur 'Mummy' With Its Skin Intact

That's pretty fukking crazy. And you can definitely see how dragon mythology would build off of old dinosaur bones.

Dinosaurs and Dragons, Oh My!

 

[jj23]

I'm sorry, I would be searching for a way to kill myself rather than letting that monster trample me.

 

[The axe murderer]

That's pretty fukking crazy. And you can definitely see how dragon mythology would build off of old dinosaur bones.

Dinosaurs and Dragons, Oh My!

I legit used to think as a kid larger species of frilled dinosaur lived alongside humans and that inspired the dragon tales

 

[Professor Emeritus]

Kind of an obvious one but the "Kraken" myths of ships getting pulled down were certainly the result of giant squid and colossal squid carcasses floating up from deep sea, or perhaps even battles witnessed between squid and sperm whale (sperm whale dive down and eat the squid).

In reality their bodies probably aren't larger than 10 feet long, with spindly tentacles up to 40 feet long which is really impressive, but at 1000 pounds max not nearly anything that could threaten a ship. And they virtually never leave the deep sea unless they're dying or drug up by whales anyway.

 

[Professor Emeritus]

Dude lookin at that and thinking "hmmmmm but what if ariel gained a few pounds"

Christopher Columbus saw that shyt and responded like a Coli poster entering a pawg thread.

"On the previous day, when the Admiral went to the Rio del Oro [Haiti], he said he quite distinctly saw three mermaids, which rose well out of the sea; but they are not so beautiful as they are said to be, for their faces had some masculine traits." (Voyages of Columbus 218)."

 

[FAH1223]

Somalia has hippos? I always think of Somalia as nothing but desert and coastline. Of course I'm ignorant as fukk just saying that.

Southern Somalia has/had a much more diverse ecosystem..

Giraffes, Lions, Hyenas, Hippos, Crocs and the most Camels in the world

All the elephants are gone now

 

[The axe murderer]

Kind of an obvious one but the "Kraken" myths of ships getting pulled down were certainly the result of giant squid and colossal squid carcasses floating up from deep sea, or perhaps even battles witnessed between squid and sperm whale (sperm whale dive down and eat the squid).

In reality their bodies probably aren't larger than 10 feet long, with spindly tentacles up to 40 feet long which is really impressive, but at 1000 pounds max not nearly anything that could threaten a ship. And they virtually never leave the deep sea unless they're dying or drug up by whales anyway.

Those squids are long as hell. This marlin didn't stand a chance

 

[The axe murderer]

Christopher Columbus saw that shyt and responded like a Coli poster entering a pawg thread.

Naaaaaaaah no way how did I not know this

 

[Megadeus]

Mexican hairless dogs are commonly mistaken for El Chupacabra especially in the night.

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