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== Real Life ==
* Whales, [[Captain Obvious|obviously]].
** There's a fossil whale species named ''[[wikipedia:Livyatan melvillei|Livyatan melvillei]]'' (from the Hebrew spelling of "Leviathan" and the author of ''Moby Dick''). And it is pretty [http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2010/6/30/1277901299026/Artists-impression-of-gia-002.jpg scary-looking].
* For a while researchers theorized that the stories of the Kraken were exaggerations of [[wikipedia:Giant squid|Giant Squid]] sightings, but more recent discoveries might prove that the tales [[Truth in Television|were not so exaggerated]]; specimens as large as eight meters (26 feet) have been caught, and it's theorized they can grow to 10 to 13 meters in total. They've also been shown to display aggressive hunting behaviors, in contrast to the hypothesis that they are slothful drifters.
** Then there's the [http://squid.tepapa.govt.nz/ Colossal Squid]. [http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/61/Colossal_squid_caught_in_February_2007.jpg A live specimen was caught in 2007], and initial estimates put its total length at 10 meters (33 feet) long before the tentacles shrank post-mortem. It's theorized that there may be even larger examples of the species in the wild, as the beak of the live specimen was smaller than what they'd found in the stomachs of sperm whales.
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