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Descriptions include 150-foot-long monsters that caused shipwrecks by wrapping their tentacles around ships, plenty of sea serpents with giant heads and long tails, and one story from 1903 of a group of men who saw a creature with a series of wings, a head like an elephant and horns.
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Amy Schwabe, Journal Sentinel, 24 June 2024
While in times past their size and often stupendous length likely gave rise to many a sailor’s tales of sea serpents, the innocent oarfish is hardly a diabolical or supernatural creature.
—Stephen C. George, Discover Magazine, 18 June 2024
In one scene, Godzilla heads to the Arctic Ocean and threatens a sea serpent with bioluminescent fins that emit a neon-pink glow (hell yeah!).
—Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 29 Mar. 2024
This kid gorilla leads Kong to a tribe of scraggly hostile apes who are living in a slave society presided over by the Skar King, an evil ape with blotchy red hair who’s as tall as Kong and wields a skeletal bone whip that looks like it was fashioned out of the spine of a sea serpent.
—Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 28 Mar. 2024
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Amy Schwabe, Journal Sentinel, 24 June 2024
While in times past their size and often stupendous length likely gave rise to many a sailor’s tales of sea serpents, the innocent oarfish is hardly a diabolical or supernatural creature.
—Stephen C. George, Discover Magazine, 18 June 2024
In one scene, Godzilla heads to the Arctic Ocean and threatens a sea serpent with bioluminescent fins that emit a neon-pink glow (hell yeah!).
—Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 29 Mar. 2024
This kid gorilla leads Kong to a tribe of scraggly hostile apes who are living in a slave society presided over by the Skar King, an evil ape with blotchy red hair who’s as tall as Kong and wields a skeletal bone whip that looks like it was fashioned out of the spine of a sea serpent.
—Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 28 Mar. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for sea serpent
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Take, for example, a species of sea snake that inhabits the inland bays of New Caledonia, an island in the Pacific Ocean.—
Stephen S. Hall,
Time,
21 Apr. 2025
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Such an enormous size is mind-blowing compared to that of modern sea snakes.—
Scott Travers,
Forbes,
13 Mar. 2025
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Virginia and Massachusetts have recognized other garter snake species as official state reptiles.—
Lia Russell,
Sacbee.com,
11 Apr. 2025
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This is the red-sided garter snake’s grand social season, a few weeks every year when anywhere between 75,000 to 150,000 individuals emerge to mate.—
Scott Travers,
Forbes.com,
26 Mar. 2025
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All sorts of animals that would horrify the average homeowner — like a four-foot-long venomous coral snake — were now his neighbors, which led to deeper reflections.—
Michael Barnes,
Austin American-Statesman,
11 Nov. 2024
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This family of about 400 species includes coral snakes, cobras, and mambas and is considered medically important since their bites can destroy tissue, cause the heart to collapse, induce blindness, and more.—
Laura Baisas,
Popular Science,
19 Sep. 2024
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Western Diamondback Rattlesnake In the deserts and suburbs of the American Southwest, one snake is responsible for more domestic run-ins with humans than any other — the western diamondback rattlesnake, or Crotalus atrox.—
Scott Travers,
Forbes.com,
3 Apr. 2025
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The eastern diamondback rattlesnake is known as being one of the most dangerous snakes in America.—
Paul Du Quenoy,
Newsweek,
31 Dec. 2024
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According to wildlife specialist Kayla Jobe, who spoke with KOKI, bull snakes are not venomous and can be helpful to have near (but not in) your home since the reptile eats small rodents.—
Tabitha Parent,
People.com,
17 Dec. 2024
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The backyard was home to a population of wildlife, such as bull snakes, racoons and skunks.—
Dana Oland,
Idaho Statesman,
31 Jan. 2024
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Waterfowl glided near us, a water snake slithered by.—
Elisabeth Vincentelli,
New York Times,
14 Apr. 2025
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On a water snake, there’s no mask, just little vertical stripes below the eye.—
Bill Kearney,
Sun Sentinel,
21 Feb. 2024
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In Hawaii, a gopher snake could threaten the food chain because the species has no natural predators in the state.—
Rachel Raposas,
People.com,
21 Nov. 2024
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In Hawaii, a gopher snake could threaten the food chain because the species has no natural predators in the state.—
Rachel Raposas,
People.com,
21 Nov. 2024
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But for Eloise Battle, the king snakes and black phoebes stood out.—
Maura Fox,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
17 Apr. 2025
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For example, the harmless king snake has red, black and yellow stripes that strongly resemble the venomous coral snake's.—
Elizabeth Preston,
Discover Magazine,
23 June 2011
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“Sea serpent.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sea%20serpent. Accessed 2 May. 2025.
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