HUNT FOR KRAKEN ENDS, BUT MANY MYSTERIES WAIT
By William J. Broad The New York Times

Sunday, Oct. 2, 2005

NEW YORK The human instinct to observe nature has always been mixed with a tendency to embroider upon it. So it is that, over the ages, societies have lived alongside not only real animals, but also a shadow bestiary of fantastic ones - mermaids, griffins, unicorns and the like. None loomed larger than the giant squid, the kraken, a great, malevolent devil of the deep. “One of these Sea-Monsters,” Olaus Magnus wrote in 1555, “will drown easily many great ships.”