Join Oliver Crimmen, Senior Curator of Fish, and Jon Ablett, Senior Curator of Mollusca, as they explore the real-life inspiration behind fantastic sea monsters of yore that are lurking in the ...

The Kraken is a gigantic sea monster from Scandinavian folklore that rises up from the ocean to devour its enemies. It's also become an internet meme representing a sprawling, unsubstantiated set ...

We landlubbers have got it all wrong: kraken aren’t terrible monsters from the sea who destroy our sailing ... the humans above – a potential cute boyfriend, her slightly weird friends and ...

which inspired the kraken, a legendary sea monster that attacked ships and pulled them to the depths, as well as science fiction author Jules Verne's underwater behemoth. "Most importantly ...