Word: eels
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...much-desired specimen eluded the Galathea. In 1930, while on the research ship Dana, Dr. Bruun caught a larval eel six feet long, which is now at a Copenhagen museum. The larvae of ordinary eels are fragile, transparent things three to four inches long, but when they grow up they reach four feet. Dr. Bruun's larva by analogy should grow up into a monster more than 100 feet long...
...Tropics. One notable case occurred on Saipan in 1949, when 55 Filipinos sat down to a feast of eel. Before the night was out, two were dead, one had to have his larynx slit to save him from choking to death, and the rest had suffered from a variety of symptoms ranging from vomiting, diarrhea and cramps to the staggers, paralysis and convulsions. Last February in Hawaii, there were 24 similar cases, all traced to fish imported from Palmyra Island. So far, there have been few clear-cut cases reported from the temperate zone; nearly all have been from...
...last witness was a zoologist from London's Natural History Museum. With scientific objectivity, he knocked down all the theories: that the monster might be a seal, a giant eel, or anything else known to science. But he did not say categorically that the monster cannot exist. The earth, he admitted, may contain many things undreamed of by zoologists...