Anthonie Cornelis Oudemans
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Anthonie Cornelis Oudemans Jzn was a Dutch zoologist. Although he was a specialist in acarology, the study of the ticks and mites, he was often best known for his books on sea monsters and the dodo.
Female mite Laelaps hilaris C.L. Koch, 1836 by Oudemans. Oudemans Collection Naturalis.
Female water mite Piona nodata (O.F. Müller, 1776). Oudemans Collection.
Sea monster
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Sea monsters are beings from folklore believed to dwell in the sea and are often imagined to be of immense size. Marine monsters can take many forms, including sea dragons, sea serpents, or tentacled
Picture taken from a Hetzel copy of Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas.
Plate c. 1544 depicting various sea monsters; compiled from the Carta marina.
Sea serpent reported by Hans Egede, Bishop of Greenland, in 1734 (Illustration by artist James Hope Stewart and engraved by William Home Lizars - 1887)
The St. Augustine Monster was a carcass that washed ashore near St. Augustine, Florida in 1896. It was initially postulated to be a gigantic octopus.