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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...
Polar bear siblings in the Churchill Wildlife Management Area near Hudson Bay spar playfully during migration.
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Polar bears at play

 Polar bear siblings in the Churchill Wildlife Management Area near Hudson Bay spar...
Three hyperiids, each with two large eyes and red body showing through their translucent bodies.
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Themisto

 These Themisto hyperiids live in the top 200 meters of cold waters around the...
A side-view of a translucent phronima with a large red eye.
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Phronima Alien

 This is another view of Phronima from the side. The eyes take up most of the head,...
Two small, translucent hyperiids with very large eyes.
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Paraphromina

 This much smaller hyperiid (in the genus Paraphromina) has eyes that make up...