What do you think this creature is? Yes, it’s a real animal that got lost in translation.
From Ulyssis Aldrovandi’s Natural History.
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What do you think this creature is? Yes, it’s a real animal that got lost in translation.
From Ulyssis Aldrovandi’s Natural History.
A Book of Creatures 
A shark? I assume so, because it has a sharp head, and it is eating what looks like a seal.
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A whale? Or some sort of aquatic mammal that would have a blowhole?
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Eel or Hagfish?
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Jellyfish?
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I want to say whale, but something tells me the most reasonable answer I can conceive isn’t the actual answer.
I bet its a gazelle or something.
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I’d say narwhale? Because of the “tusk” part and whatever’s depicted in that illustration… I have no idea if they eat seals (I think not?), but whatever, octopuses aren’t fish and they didn’t care so… hahaha.
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I’d say a whale?Or maybe an anchorfish
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Oarfish?
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A sword fish?
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Definitely an oarfish.
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A sea anemone? It seems to be doing that engulfy thing…
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I think there’s an argument to be made for the goblin shark, as well, what with its extending mouth thingee.
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