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The Alien Under the Sea: The Octopus

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Photo of an octopus in an aquarium

The Alien Under the Sea: The Octopus

Image of three penguins on a rocky shore, from the documentary "Secrets of the Penguins"

Masters of the Sea and Land: National Geographic’s Secrets of the Penguins

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Detail from poster art for Jacques Cousteau's Voyage to the Edge of the World, depicting two divers and a submersible under water with a humpback whale

The Improbable Wedding of Fire and Ice: Jacques Cousteau’s Voyage to the Edge of the World

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Detail from the Warbler Press edition of Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas by Jules Verne

Around the World in 300-ish Days: Jules Verne’s Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas

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Detail from a Renaissance illustration of sea monsters

Here Be Sea Monsters

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Photo of a coelacanth underwater

When a Species Rises From the Dead: The Lazarus Taxon

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William Katt and Sean Young with a dinosaur puppet in Baby: Secret of the Lost Legend

Bringing Up Cryptids — Baby: Secret of the Lost Legend

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An outdated model of a sauropod as shown in MonsterQuest; illustration by paleo-artist Neave Parker

MonsterQuest Hunts the Mokele-Mbembe

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Illustration depicting a brontosaurus as an aquatic creature

A Creature From the Jungles of Africa: Tales of the Mokele-Mbembe

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Detail from the cover of Tongues of Serpents

Bunyips vs. Dragons: Naomi Novik’s Tongues of Serpents

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Phascolarctos cinereus -ZooParc de Beauval, France. Author frank wouters (CC-BY), CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=31676385

A Brief Interlude Down Under: Cryptids, Australian Style

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Illustration from Jenny Wagner’s The Bunyip of Berkeley’s Creek; art by Ron Brooks

Cryptids for Kids: The Bunyip of Berkeley’s Creek and Hector’s Bunyip

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