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Monsters from the deep
Tales of giant sea monsters have been common for many centuries, inspiring
___fascination__ among sailors.
However, until comparatively (1) ____
there was no firm evidence for the (2) ____ of such creatures.
Towards the end of the nineteenth century, a number of dead
giant squid were washed up on the shores of Newfoundland,
which forced scientists to entirely (3) ____ their opinion.
The (4) ____ of the dead animals spurred marine scientists
to redouble their efforts to capture a live specimen.
However, all their attempts ended in failure and (5) ____ .
Then, in 2004 two Japanese researchers were (6) ____
in taking the first ever photos of a giant squid in its (7) ____ habitat.
They were astonished by what they saw.
Up until that point, scientists had thought that squids
(8) ____ moved and simply ate whatever drifted by,
but the photos revealed that they had misunderstood the
nature of these enormous creatures.
Taken at a (9) ____ of 900 metres off Japan’s Ogasawara Islands,
the pictures show the squid aggressively attacking bait
on a line that the researchers had dropped from their boat.
Marine scientists worldwide are now eager to discover
more about the nature and (10) ____ giant squid.
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