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Giant Octopus from It Came From Beneath the Sea:
Octopus from It came from Beneth The Sea
Giant Octopus from It Came from Beneath the Sea

Type

Cephalopod

Status

Molusk

Group

Cephalopods

Habitat

All of the oceans, giant molisks and other giant aquadic creatures of great size mainly live in deep parts of the ocean such as abyss. Probably lived in the deep under water trenches that surrround San Francisco such as Aleultian , Kunl , New Hebriides, Kermadec-Tonga , Marianas, Japan Trenchs.

Size

Giant, Probably Over 140 ft (42 meters ) Weight: 1000,000 lbs

Appearances

It Came from Beneath the Sea

Weaknesses

Humans

The Octopus appears in It Came from Beneath the Sea. The Octopus from It Came From Beneath the Sea was a splendid example of stop-motion animation. It was based of the mythical aquatic creatures such as the Kraken and the proven to exist Giant Squid. The giant octopus concept was extremely likely in the location of the Pacific Ocean because of its large quantities of undersea trenches and giant aquatic life. The time the film was made large quanites of the tenticals of giant squid were found in sperm whales. Sightings of giant squids from salors fronm the past and the tenticals from whaler helped develope myths of gigantic creature that was fearsome and very brutal to salors. The finds and myths helped inspier the

Beneath

The Octopus Attacks San Francisco

consept of giant monster. Ray Harryhausen made a large almost

anatomically corect if it had all eight legs insted of six

Myth of the Creature

The Creature has been seen through mythology for thousands of years. It has been created by sights of giant betentacled creatures, discovered remains and imagination.

Discoveries[]



Many discoveries have been made about giant betentacled beings. Whalers for centuries have stumbled upon their remains. Only to make myths and stories of their findings. In the Nineteenth century Scientist began to conduct studies on the remains, But it was not until the 1930s that the creature was properly examined.


Paleontology[]

Ray harryhausen has always had great interest to the past. Giant aquatic life like this were extraordinarily common in the ancient times. Creatures such as Ammonites roamed the giant seas in unrecordable numbers from the beginning to the end of the dinosaurs.



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