WEIRD SEA MONSTERS.

Press, Volume LVIII, Issue 17451, 11 May 1922, Page 10

WEIRD SEA MONSTERS.

If the reptile tto be made in Patagoni>Wsly the description ot covered with reddish; hail- WMHp< ed by horny plates, from any point of view respondent in a LondonjwWf}-_ £^Bj< The plesiosaurusj to ffhtt scription seeins to creature with a email neck, a somewhat turtlwiMWilßßJ. a short tail. It >vas four large flippers with Its-length, as we know skeletons which have was between thirty The plesiosaur was ■ttWffljF'BK fnl in the warm, Mesozoic times. It ,!9H numerous family of fisfrlißW u'hieh an equally that of tho lctbyjwaur/awmw a head like that of a birr as soup-plates, four terrific tail. .^iw No longer ago than 1883, a creature precisely «?«rW the ictliyosaur (so far ns WMJpSH been able to reconstruct >w, jllfflj ed off the coast of Alaska. AJj|H little over 30ft long, and, M» TO boat without any provocotitm, it in with one flick of its tag It is the fashion to jeer:it tion of sea serpents. y«.JH| for the existence of undarfWM monsters at the r.l|M strong chough tp judiced person who will tatoW I "pH to investigate it. . . jMH Lool> up the News" for October will find there a full account "JM monster seen by the i|aH of H.M.S. Daedalus. "> *f nesses, together vilfi captain. This creature twenty minutes, passed ship's taffrail, and its lflßfi*® as 80ft. . HfljgtMm It was probably "j e .L maximus" of the 2 eo '°ff JUn think that the incident history I would remind longer ago than mBB a similar monster was Soldier's Kay, off the Flof that its head, 15ft l°ng» weighing 3 tons. vWj®£ JjH finders into tne Port An animal encountorafl idaM Umfuli off Cape Verde rnce of a serpent ivitn » Its girth was enormons, w» iw back was seen above length was set by toe S 150 ft/ , n . a MM There are on record instances of such creatu ed, and of these fully take a great deal of exP»y w£