Something Bigger Than The Kraken Is Living In The Mariana Trench Scientists just recorded a strange sound deep in the Mariana Trench—over seven miles down. Initial analysis suggests the acoustic signature doesn’t match any known marine species.
The legend of the Kraken, a massive sea creature said to drag entire ships beneath the waves, has been traced by scientists to the real existence of the giant squid. For centuries, stories from Scandinavian sailors described an animal large enough to be mistaken for an island. While many historians dismissed these accounts as exaggeration, the discovery of enormous squid specimens in the 1800s pro…