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Welcome to Monster Talk, the Science Show about Monsters.

I'm Blake Smith.

And I'm Karen Stalsner.

This week's episode of Monster Talk has an explicit tag due to sexual content. It's not Ken Bleeping

Fetter level explicit, but if you have any little monster talkers around I thought I should

forewarn you. Oh and speaking of Ken Bleeping Fetter, his book on the 50 archaeological site she used to see for yourself,

titled Ancient America, is now out in print. I haven't got my own copy yet.

In fact, he just told me about it a few hours ago.

But if you've enjoyed his other

work I suspect this book will be really great. Monster dog. Few places on earth are

so visible yet so mysterious as the sea.

As a species we've wandered all over the surface of the earth, establishing footholds and every

nook and cranny, yet there, just out of reach for most of us, lies a vast expanse of unexplored mystery which is teeming

with life of an astonishing variety.

Stories of monsters and wonders washing up from the sea go back thousands of years.

It's only since the advent of writing that we've been able to reliably collect such stories

and start to evaluate whether they represent real animals are mere fanciful invention. Today we're going to talk about

such tales as this and whether or not science can identify likely known creatures that correspond

with these descriptions.

Be sure and check out the show notes at monstertalk.org for links to the papers from our

guest today, Dr Charles Paxton. It's actually quite unlike anything we've ever seen before.

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