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SEA MONSTERS
Question: What animal is over 30 1­­­­______ long, has a big head, 2_____ eyes, a 3_____ like a lion, a long neck, a body like a snake and lots of arms like an 4______? Answer: Nobody knows.
But 5_______ have been telling stories about giant creatures of the sea for hundreds of years. The monsters that sailors and fishermen 6_______ are all slightly different but it's often an animal like a 7______ snake, at least 8______ feet long, with an enormous head and neck. It sometimes actually 9______ the ship. Some of these sea monsters 10______ to be big pieces of 11_____ or wood, but other stories are not so easy to 12_____. So what can these monsters be?
They could be sharks: There is an unusual type of shark that is 13_______ like an eel. It has a frill around its neck, which could look like a lion's mane. But the biggest one ever caught was only 14_______ feet long. Another type of shark, the 'basking shark', can 15_______ to about 16_______ feet in 17_______. In the 1970s a Japanese fishing boat caught an enormous 18_______ 'monster' with a long neck. Scientists tested some small pieces of the animal and discovered that it was a basking shark. When these sharks die, parts of them 19_______ very quickly, which gives them a very strange 20_______. But this doesn't explain stories about living, moving sea monsters.
They could be just very big snakes: The biggest snake in the world is the 21_______. One was found in the 22_______ that 23_______ feet, but there are no photographs to 24_______ it. South American Indians tell stories of even bigger ones. The problem with this theory is that the anaconda is 25_______ to South America and can't 26_______ in cold water.
They could be giant squid: This is an interesting theory. Scientists all accept that giant squid really 27_______ but we don't see them very often because they live in 28_______, cold water. They can be up to 29____ feet in length and have the biggest eyes in the animal 30_______ – over one foot in 31_______. (There are reports of much bigger ones too.) They have a strong mouth like a bird's 32_______ that can cut through 33_______ cables, and five pairs of arms, or 34_______. One pair is longer and thinner than the others and is used to catch food. People have seen giant squid attacking 35_______ for food. In the 1960s some Russian sailors reported watching a 36_______ between a whale and a giant squid. Both animals 37_______; the whale was found 38_______ with the squid's arms wrapped around its neck, and the squid's head was found in the whale's 39_______. There are also reports of giant squid attacking ships, maybe thinking that they were whales. So the giant sea snakes wrapped around ships could actually be one or two arms of a giant squid.
They could be giant octopuses: Giant octopuses also exist – there are 40_______ of octopus with bodies as much as 23 feet around. But there are also stories about an unknown variety that grows much, much bigger. An enormous animal was found dead and rotting on a beach in Florida in the 41_______. Parts of it seemed to be 42_______ arms over 30 feet long. Scientists tested a small part of the body but couldn't agree whether it was a whale or an octopus. Like the giant squid, the giant octopus has a strong mouth like the giant squid but it has only eight arms. It lives at the bottom of the sea and uses its arms to move around over the rocks. This explains why we don't see giant octopuses very often.
Giant octopuses could be 43_______ sea animals that have survived from the time of the 44_______. We know that strange animals lived in the sea during 45_______ times, and many of them were very big indeed. They didn't look like fish and they had to come up to the 46_______ of the water to 47_______ air. Perhaps, when the dinosaurs died out, these sea creatures survived and have lived in the oceans ever since. Is that possible?
Well, maybe it is. In 1938 a strange fish was caught in the Indian Ocean. Scientists eventually 48_______ it as a coelacanth (pronounced 'seel-a-kanth'), which everyone thought had died out over 49_______ years ago. And another type of coelacanth was found in the 1990s in South East Asia.
So, do any of these 50_______ you? Or do you think that deep down at the bottom of the sea, where we have never 51_______, there are strange creatures that are still completely unknown to science?
True/ False/ Not Given

1. 
   There have been cases when people confused a big piece of seaweed with a sea monster.
   
2. 
   The biggest shark ever caught was 25 meters long.
   
3. 
   In 1970, a Japanese finishing boat caught an enormous busking shark measuring 40 feet long.
   
4. 
   Another animal people might mistake for seamonster is anaconda which can’t survive in cold water.
   
5. 
   The biggest anaconda ever found was 35 feet long. However, there is no photo of it to prove.
   
6. 
   Giant squids are very aggressive and they have killed many men.
   
7. 
   Giant squids can attack whales for food and the fight between them can end up in death.
   
8. 
   Both whales and giant octopuses have strong mouth.
   
9. 
   Out of several creatures mentioned, giant squid is the biggest one in size.
   
10. 
    The creature with the largest eyes in animal kingdom is giant squids which measure one foot in diameter.