Comments on: Where is Cassie?

By: CryptoInformant

CryptoInformant — Thu, 05 Oct 2006 21:38:33 +0000

I’m going with a combination of big noisy boats and a drop in populations, though I would like to think the first is the main reason.

By: Mnynames

Mnynames — Thu, 05 Oct 2006 13:29:31 +0000

Personally, I think there would have to be less Sea Monsters around today than there were in the 19th and early 20th centuries, for the simple fact that there is less of everything else out there in the oceans today.

Take Sea Turtles, which are pretty big, but clearly dwarfed by most Sea Monsters. All but one species of Sea Turtle is endangered, and the one that isn’t is considered threatened. The largest of them, the Leatherback, is in fact critically endangered.

When environments are altered, whether by natural calamity or man-made influence, the animals most effected are the ones that require the most food. Leatherbacks, some of them the size of Volkswagens, will die off before Loggerheads (Which reach a top weight of only 400 pounds or so), because they cannot find enough food, while the smaller ones are still able to eke out an existence.

In the extreme circumstance of the K-T extinction 65 MYA, the largest animals, the Dinosaurs, died out, while much smaller ones such as turtles, crocodilians, rodents, fish, insects, and so on lived on.

Odds are good that if they exist, Sea Monsters are endangered through most of their former range, their population levels hovering around that of the average species of whale (Less, of course, if they feed off of whales).

By: cor2879

cor2879 — Thu, 05 Oct 2006 00:59:47 +0000

You never know Loren. Much like some of the ‘rediscovered’ animals you posted about last week, perhapd Cassie will rear its head again some day.

By: busterggi

busterggi — Wed, 04 Oct 2006 22:42:50 +0000

Anyone out there offering a grant to study the effects of global warming on cryptids?

By: joe levit

joe levit — Wed, 04 Oct 2006 17:03:57 +0000

Also, the idea that most people are on boats or ships that make considerable noise and often travel in specific shipping lanes can account for some lack of reports. After all, when Thor Heyerdahl and his mates completed the Kon Tiki tour, he mentioned experiencing some unknown large creatures that weren’t whales. They never did discover what they were. But the reason they may have had these encounters at all is that they were floating slowly, and silently on a raft for many miles

By: mystery_man

mystery_man — Wed, 04 Oct 2006 15:43:50 +0000

Yes, there are a lot of reasons why these creatures, if they ever existed, would have dissappeared. Maybe pollutants, environmental changes, etc. I hate to say it, but they may even have become extinct before ever really being discovered. I often wonder about animals that have died out before being found by science and officially recognized. The fact that there are not really any sightings these days makes me suspect that this is the case here. Wonder if we will ever know what was really going on over there?

By: flame821

flame821 — Wed, 04 Oct 2006 14:02:37 +0000

The romantic in me would love to believe that there were more sea monsters in the past, but the more logical side of me keeps yammering that there were simply more mis-identifications of what WERE unknown animals (at that point in history)

However, if taken as literal truth (that there were more true monsters then) perhaps it has something to due with the environmental changes? Change in migration of food supply; change in salinity or currents; upswing of polutants and sewage in coastal waters.

The possibilities are nearly limitless.