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King Manuel of Portugal rides a sea creature
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Political Props

 Long before they disappeared from maps, sea monsters were repurposed for politics....
a mermaid illustration on an old map
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A Mermaid's Vanity

 A siren admires herself in a mirror—a sign of her vanity—amongst ships in the...
A lobster like beat on an old map
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The Many Footed Beast

 Polypus (meaning “many-footed”) was used to describe many animals, from the...
A sea pig illustration on an old map
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Sea Swine

 This sea pig, which was compared to heretics that distorted truth and lived like...
A couple inches wide and up to ten feet long, the bobbit worm stays hidden under tropical sands with just its five antennae poking out—waiting for prey to swim by.
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The Bobbit Worm

 There aren't any mummies or zombies buried under the seafloor: instead the ocean...
Blue-spotted stingrays use the help of cleaner fish to stay clean and healthy.
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Blue-spotted Stingray

 The blue-spotted stingray (Taeniura lymma) doesn’t like to be covered in sand...