1. Sea Myths
Fact or Fiction?

2. Where: Loch Ness, Scotland What: a Sea Monster living in the lake!
#1: Nessie
Where: Loch Ness, Scotland
What: a Sea Monster living in the lake!
1st reported in the 7th century!
1st reported sighting was in 1933

4. #2: Mermaids
Where: Every where in the ocean, especially along rocky coasts
What: ½ fish, ½ human creature
Said to sing songs (like sirens – more on them tomorrow!) and lure sailors to them
Sometimes said to inhabit Atlantis (more on that as well!)
Some stories say they drown the sailors
Pirates of the Caribbean!
Some stories say they help people
The Little Mermaid

6. #3: Kraken
Where: Anywhere, but mostly in the frigid waters between Norway & Iceland
What: a giant, tentacled sea creature…sounds kinda familiar….

7. #4: The Fish that came back…
From EXTINCTION!
Say what?!
Coelecanth
Believed to have been extinct for over 65 million years!
Scientists only knew it from fossils
Found, ALIVE off the coast of Africa in the 1900’s
Survivability in danger due to trawling
Doesn’t taste very good, so it has no real commercial value
An example of a Lazarus taxon