Al-Qazwini’s description of the sea turtle – not a distinct monster per se, just “sea turtles are huge and have vegetation on their backs and look like islands and people land on them”.
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A Book of Creatures 
Where do you believe the giant turtle with vegetation on the back came from?
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Probably algae-covered I would think, and turtles are already kind of big. Exaggerated from there
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