7 fantastic creatures that existed actually

As they say, every tale has some truth to it, and as it turns out, sometimes this accounts for the role of dragons, hobbits and underwater giants the size of a 10-storey building.

For those who wanted to be in the story, the Website has made a selection of the 7 legendary creatures that existed in reality.

Hobbits





The word "hobbit" Tolkien invented, however, there is evidence that the little people existed really.

During excavations in 2003 on Flores island in Indonesia, archaeologists have discovered the skeleton of a man about 1 meter and with a head 3 times less than the average person. Later, scientists found the remains of 9 people and the age of the youngest of them was 12 000 years.

Scientists came to the conclusion that it is a separate species. And gave him the name "man Florensky" (lat. Homo floresiensis), but most of them are called hobbits.

In addition, in Indonesia, are quite suitable volcanoes to, say, throw them in the ring if necessary.

Dragons





Dragons, without a doubt, the most famous of mythical creatures. A huge lizard breathing fire, which could win only the brave knight.

But there were real animals, and you could call them dragons. For example, megalania is the largest of the lizards known to science. They grew up to 9 meters in length, weighed 2 200 kg and spat poisonous saliva. Sounds familiar, right? Megalania existed in the Pleistocene era and were able to meet the person, and their remains — to create a myth about dragons.

By the way, dragons do exist today. They are called Komodo dragons live in Indonesia and can reach 3 meters in length, that too much.

Kraken





Giant squid than, in fact, is the Kraken, can exist today. Moreover, it has been confirmed by the sailors and scientists.

In 2015, the squid length of 3.7 metres was discovered and filmed on video near Japan. As he said then the scientists, it was only a calf, which can grow up to 25 meters in length. Agree that the 25 meter big man could easily grab the tentacles and pull on the bottom of even a large ship.

Image (Imoogi), or Korean dragon





Korean legends tell about Emoji — huge pythons, considered to be young dragons. According to legend, they were in the water or caves and had to live on earth for a thousand years, before turning into dragons and fly away to the sky.

Although the evidence found in South America, not in Korea, the giant snake actually existed. Python, titanoboa was 14 meters long and weighed more than 1 ton. He was so huge that we could take him for a young dragon. Titanoboa, died many years ago, but I would like to believe that they still have dragons and flew to the sky.

Megalodon





The biggest shark in the world Megalodon — plied the depths of the oceans, about 28 million years ago. Megalodon was a true king of the underwater world, reached 16 meters in length and weighed approximately 47 tons.

According to some versions of scientists, which are based on the found remains, these superchinese could live up to the appearance of man. And some believe that Megalodon still live in the unexplored waters.

Direwolves





Remember lutovac of "Game of thrones"? These monsters existed in real life, that's just called them "terrible wolves". They lived in the Pleistocene era of the megafauna, and throughout North and South America archaeologists have found their remains. Direwolves were much larger and stronger than usual, they can reach 1.5 meters in length and weigh up to 70 kg.

But unlike their image in the "Game of thrones", "wolves" was slow. And when the megafauna began to disappear, they simply are unable to hunt small, quick prey and eventually extinct.

Moby Dick





The famous novel "Moby dick" was based on stories about real giant white sperm whale. He attacked whaling ships and carried them into chips, sending to the bottom. In 1819, the crew of the whaling ship to hunt whales for a year and a half, while a huge white sperm whale did not put an end to it.

• In 1839, in one of the magazines of the time published an article which said that the giant whale was defeated off the coast of Chile near the island of Mocha, since it was called Mocha dick.
• And in 1974 the canadian sailors spotted the whale albino in the Atlantic. They pursued the animal for many hours, until he was able to envelop its networks in the Gulf. It turned out that it was a young female. So, the same giant whale could exist.

In addition, experts in Peru have found well-preserved skull of the sperm whale, whose length was up to 12-17 meters. This species has been called Leviathan melvillei.

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