Mythical creatures

[Darkbrady]

My own view is of a cataclysmic event that throws the natural world so far out of balance that it would take many thousands of years for recovery to a high level. This is also vallid and is the view of many scientists.

Unfortunately, we will have to agree to disagree, but I accept the hypothesis as reasonable.

Thas how I saw it as well; I expect this is why Esca was confused that I kept bringin' up atrophy as an issue...I didnae even realise he was talkin' about short term recovery until he explained it as such x.x

Has anyone ever heard the story of an aquarium that kept losing their display of crayfish? The staff would come to work in the morning to find only empty shells in their tank.
This was a bit of a mystery because everything else was as it should be.
Eventually it was decided to set up a video surveillence to see if that could shed some light on the matter. What they found out was that an octopus, that was in a tank across the room, had found a way to escape from it's tank. It would make it's way across the room and enter the lobster tank, have a little midnight feast and then (this is the astounding bit) leave the lobster tank and make it's way back to it's own tank before morning.
It's said that the octopus should be fairly low level intelligence. Their brain is small and not very complex and they have a very short life-span. Yet this shows a creature that can not only work out and execute a plan, but seems to be aware of consequences and makes the effort to cover up it's actions.

I know this has nothing to do with mythical creatures of the sea, but I offer it to make the point that there are many things that we don't yet understand, including the ways that other creatures 'think'.

I don't think we should make any assumptions about sea creatures at all....anythin' that can live underwater weirds me out as it is, jus' beasue of how little we know about them. Assumin' that they're of set level of intelligences when we are yet to explain fully how they live underwater or can survive at such high pressures, or how some of them can live on and around volcanic vents....these creatures make absolutely no sense as it is w/o makin' assumptions on their brains.