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new york journal (new york [n.y.]) 1896-1897 — sea serpent

Date of account: Newspaper page published 1896-08-16
Location: new york, new york, united states
Source: Chronicling America paranormal and anomalous-report excerpts
Reference: new york journal (new york [n.y.]) 1896-1897 · 1896-08-16 · page 25
Rights: public_domain
Language: English OCR
Record updated: 2026-08-24

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A 1896-08-16 newspaper page contains wording relevant to “sea serpent”. This is historical reporting or commentary preserved by the Library of Congress; it is not treated as verification that the described event occurred.

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... IDENTIFIED BY SCIENTISTS AS THE SEA SERPENT. They have large jaws, armed with great, lancet-shaped teeth, and some of them ac tually are able to swallow other flslies of much greater size than themselves, thauks to an extensible stomach. The most notable example of this kind is the Clilasmodon, or black swallower, which buries itself in the ooze of the bottom and waits for victims to come along and wan der into its cavernous mouth. The creat ure, indeed. Is mostly mouth. Its jaws are hung like those of a serpent, so as to stretch enormously. Its extraor dinary greed is apt to be punished by a fatal attack of indigestion, and the dying animal ...

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