But long before there was a Christian devil, God had a first worst enemy: the great mythical sea monster, best known by the name Leviathan. The cosmic showdown of god versus sea monster has roots deep ...

When Albert Koch uncovered a graveyard of fossilised mastodons in 1840, he believed he had discovered nothing less than a mythical sea monster ... He called it the Missouri Leviathan - referring to ...

A vast array of mythical sea monsters are depicted ... and Christian values resulted in a belief in the Leviathan. Fear of existing sea creatures, on the other hand, led to exaggerated renderings ...

I think the fact that they are such odd creatures, with some very large species being very rarely seen, make it very likely that they could be the starting points for the kraken and other sea beast ...