Legendary Sea Monsters
- The Aspidochelone, a giant turtle or whale that appeared to be an island, and lured sailors to their doom
- Capricorn, Babylonian Water-Goat, in the Zodiac
- Cetus
- Charybdis of Homer, a monstrous whirlpool that sucked any ship nearby
- Cirein-cròin
- Coinchenn, from whose bone the Gae Bulg is made in Celtic mythology
- Hydra, Greece
- Iku-Turso, reputedly a type of colossal octopus or walrus
- Jörmungandr, the Norse Midgard Serpent.
- Kraken, a gigantic octopus, squid or crab-like creature
- Leviathan
- Makara
- Proteus
- Scylla of Homer, a six-headed, twelve-legged serpentine that devoured six men from each ship that passed by
- Sirens of Homer
- Taniwha
- The Rainbow Fish
- Tiamat
- Umibōzu
- Yacumama, South America
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