Sea monsters

The legends of sea monsters are some of the best legends that humans have for the following reasons. *) As stated in the fossil record, large and ferocious creatures once lived in the sea. *) Some of those "fossils", such as the Coelacanth, still exist. *) Until recently, most of the ocean depths were unexplored. *) On occasion, a creature such as the Giant Squid have been sighted and examined In this book, Buehr executes a chronological examination of the concept of the sea monsters. Starting with the monsters described in the fossil record, he then moves on to the "sightings" of monsters in the Middle Ages and then proceeds to modern times. Only occasionally does he move beyond the bounds of scientific fact and even then only slightly. The farthest he dwells from sound scientific knowledge is in the last two chapters, when he describes the sightings of the Loch Ness monster and the Moha Moha off the coast of Australia. As yet, it is still possible that there are additional sea monsters that humans have yet to encounter in the scientific sense. For that reason, books like this are extra interesting. For, given the reasons cited above, they have existed and it is possible, although the probabilities drop with each passing day that they still exist.