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Long ago, heading out to sea was an adventure into the unknown. People believed that the earth was _______. They thought if you sailed too far away from land, you would sail right o the ______ of the planet! It took great _________ to head across _______ of a ship, they imagined strange and scary ____________ swimming there. One of the scariest stories told and retold through generations of __________ was the legend of the terrible, mighty Kraken! the ocean in a small ship. When sailors looked into the deep, dark sea from the
ike many legends, stories about the Kraken probably started with something real. It may have been based on sightings of a real species of squid called the colossal squid .
Hold this page up to a mirror and use your peepers to read this paragraph:
For a giant sperm whale, a giant squid is a nice, lling meal. How do they avoid whales? Squids have large eyes – its eyes are the largest of any animal! They are as big as dinner plates,
up to 27cm (11in) across. These giant peepers are thought to have evolved to spot the whales from far away, giving the squid time to get away.
In some stories about the Kraken, it was said that it could oat on top of the water and look like a group of islands.
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