Kraken attacking a fishing boat off the coast of Angola
Kraken or giant cuttlefish attacking a fishing boat off the coast of Angola. After a description by Pierre Denys de Montfort in his Natural History of the Mollusca. Probably a giant squid, Architeuthis species. Steel engraving by W.H. Lizars after an illustration by James Stewart from Robert Hamilton's Amphibious Carnivora, part of Sir William Jardine's Naturalist's Library: Mammalia, Edinburgh, 1839
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12488921
Media ID
45771361
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7094px x 4369px
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Credit
©Florilegius/Mary Evans
Source
Florilegius Collection
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