Two more illustrations for the first an lasts project- in the 1500s these sea monsters were thought to actually exist. Explorers talked of sea serpents (snakes with horses heads) and the Ziphus (a giant fish with an owls face). This website has a mini catalog of all these weird animals that supposedly once existed, with some interesting images similar to Albertus Seba's Cabinet of Natural Curiosities illustrations http://www.strangescience.net/stsea2.htm
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