Behemoth, leviathan, etc.

From: bivalve <bivalve@mail.davidson.alumlink.com>
Date: Sat Mar 05 2005 - 16:35:05 EST

> Descriptions in Job of both behemoth and leviathan sound unlike any creature
> we can currently identify. Could they be creatures now extinct? I think
> that's a possibility. Or perhaps these were descriptions of mythical beasts
> that never existed but were merely conjured by man's imagination? I would
> say unlikely but, again, a possibility.

A combination of these is possible, i.e. mythical beasts inspired by fossil bones.

    Dr. David Campbell
    Old Seashells
    University of Alabama
    Biodiversity & Systematics
    Dept. Biological Sciences
    Box 870345
    Tuscaloosa, AL 35487-0345 USA
    bivalve@mail.davidson.alumlink.com

That is Uncle Joe, taken in the masonic regalia of a Grand Exalted Periwinkle of the Mystic Order of Whelks-P.G. Wodehouse, Romance at Droitgate Spa
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