Beware of the Monsters

[Freak]

Stranger then fiction: http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/science/01/29/elephant.ancestors.ap/index.html

[Revolg]

The 7 million-year-old remains suggest the mammal moved around larger areas of Europe than previously believed, possibly swimming long distances in search of food.

This is another species of Elephant, pretty cool, eh? Too bad it's dated at 7 million years. If it was earlier it could of been a ancestor. I think that is totally freaky! Never knew that had other fossils of this.

Remains of other elephant ancestors have previously been found on mainland Greece, leading some researchers to speculate that bones found by ancient Greeks may have become part of their mythology.

A large hole in the middle of the elephant's skull -- the nasal cavity for its trunk -- could have given rise to the tales of the cyclops, the ferocious mythological giant with one eye that appears in Homer's "Odyssey" and other stories.

"People who lived in the early Greek period may have seen (elephant) bones and couldn't have imagined where they could have come from," said Fassoulas.

Hardly, find artwork of any Elephant and it shows full frontal features (skin attached). It's hard to speculate on such things because you weren't there. Giants with one eye sounds nice. They sure this one eyed elephant wasn't living at the time? Sounds odd they would make a dead elephant with one eye into a living creature that is powerful. Ancient Greeks and their deities were often powerful and they came from the natural surrounding of the day. If they found bones it would end up as the average Greek's tea cup. No pun intended.

[yxboom]

That is one awesome looking elephant!

[Yog^sothoth]

You know what they say, all mythology and legend is rooted in fact. Maybe these things eventually became the cyclopses.

Who knows!

[yxboom]

Yog^sothoth:
You know what they say, all mythology and legend is rooted in fact. Maybe these things eventually became the cyclopses.

Who knows! I agree, just like tales of unicorn and dragons. :)

[Dee Dee Warren]

And of an Admin with a capacious head..... err, nevermind.