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Illustration from Omnium fere gentium nostrae que aetatis nationum, habitus et effigies, et in eosdem epigrammata by Johannes Sluperius, 1572
The sea monk (also monk-fish or monkfish) was a sea creature found off the eastern coast of the Danish island of Zealand in 1546. It was described as a "fish" that outwardly resembled a human monk in his habit.
The seamonk (also monk-fish or monkfish) was a sea creature found off the eastern coast of the Danish island of Zealand in 1546. It was described as...
The Monk by the Sea (German: Der Mönch am Meer) is an oil painting by the German Romantic artist Caspar David Friedrich. It was painted between 1808 and...
dark gray in females. Monk seals are found in the Hawaiian archipelago, certain areas in the east Atlantic and Mediterranean Sea (such as Cabo Blanco and...
The Hawaiian monk seal is one of two extant monk seal species; the other is the Mediterranean monk seal. A third species, the Caribbean monk seal, is extinct...
The Mediterranean monk seal (Monachus monachus) is a monk seal belonging to the family Phocidae. As of 2015[update], it is estimated that fewer than 700...
Sea monsters reported first or second hand include: A giant octopus by Pliny (not to be confused with the documented Giant Pacific octopus) Seamonk Various...
"SeaMonks, Sea Bishops, and the Mysterious Umibōzu of Japan". mysteriousuniverse.org. Retrieved 24 October 2017. Lee, Henry (1883). "The Great Sea Serpent"...
The Monks, referred to by the name monks on record sleeves, were an American rock band formed in Gelnhausen, West Germany, in 1964. Assembled by five American...
The Caribbean monk seal (Neomonachus tropicalis), also known as the West Indian seal or sea wolf, was a species of seal native to the Caribbean which...
The monk parakeet (Myiopsitta monachus), also known as the monk parrot or Quaker parrot, is a species of true parrot in the family Psittacidae. It is...
including devils, angels and dragons. Some writers have suggested the seamonk may have been a Jenny Haniver. The earliest known picture of Jenny Haniver...
Gessner, 1558:519, fig. for seamonk depiction published therein). #1 (c. 1546) Painted woodcuts of the seamonk (#1; left) and sea bishop (the latter also...
Japanese sea lion and the Caribbean monk seal have become extinct in the past century, while the Mediterranean monk seal and Hawaiian monk seal are ranked...
Inspector William Monk is a fictional character created by the writer Anne Perry and hero of a series of books. Monk was born in Northumberland shortly...
loggerhead sea turtles in Europe. The Alboran Sea also hosts important commercial fisheries, including sardines and swordfish. The Mediterranean monk seals...
time (c. 1550s) carried entries on the mermaid-like monk-fish (seamonk) and the bishopfish (sea bishop), and Gudger suspected these were misinformation...
brown palette. Monk and Nun is one of Europe's historical roof tiles traditionally found in countries along or near the Mediterranean Sea: Portugal, Spain...
known for her role as Natalie Teeger in the USA Network television series Monk from 2005 to 2009. She has also starred on the sitcoms Boston Common (1996–1997)...
the present dispersed continents" Australian Systematic Botany 4: pp. 1–11 Monk, K.A.; Fretes, Y.; Reksodiharjo-Lilley, G. (1996). The Ecology of Nusa Tenggara...
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