Kraken

The Kraken has also been discribed as both a giant squid of monstrous proportions and even in some stories as a great island-fish or turtle that masquerades as a land-mass that mysteriously disappears overnight. Also, the legend of the Kraken has even been atributed to sightings of prehistoric remnants of creatures thought extinct, such as the Elasmosaurus, or the Megalodon.

Kraken have been mistaken for North Atlantic giant squid that regularly come up against sperm whales. The problem with this assumption is that the Kraken as a mythological figure is much larger than even the 30-foot long giant squid. However, squids having no skeleton thus no growth limit, some assume that 100 to 150 ft long -or more- specimen could explain all the legends, testimonies and large wounds observed on old sperm whales

