"to evolve over the intervening 65 million years. This has resulted in strange variations on previously known species, as well as many new ones. Chief among the latter is a race of sentient dinosaurs, called Deathrunners. Bipedal, extremely aggressive and 6 to 9 feet tall, they once ruled the island and were at war with the Tagatu and the Kongs. Their race is propagated every few generations by one queen that grows to gigantic size. It is one of these, called “Gaw”, that ruled Skull Island when King Kong was born and who Kong had to defeat in order to"
"a result of a natural disaster, they were forced to migrate to Skull Island untold millennia ago. Drawn to its spectacular makeup by their insatiable curiosity, the Tagatu believed their mastery of biological and organic sciences could overcome Skull Island's dangers. It was they who originally brought the gigantic simian Kongs there for protection and who, with the help of the Kongs, built the iconic wall across the Skull Island’s peninsula for protections against Skull Island’s prehistoric denizens. Among the many mysteries revealed in the work is the reality that on Skull Island the dinosaurs never died out, but continued"
"Þjazi In Norse mythology, Þjazi (; ; anglicized as Thiazi, Thjazi, Tjasse or Thiassi) was a giant. He was a son of the giant Ölvaldi, brother of giants Iði and Gangr, and the father of Skaði. His most notable misdeed was the kidnapping of the goddess Iðunn, which is related in both the ""Prose Edda"" and the skaldic poem ""Haustlöng"". According to ""Skáldskaparmál"", the gods Odin, Loki and Hœnir set out one day on a journey, traveling through mountains and wilderness until they were in need of food. In a valley they saw a herd of oxen, and they took"
"a particular attachment to a creature Farnum has wanted to capture for a long time, the Beast of Skull Shores, so he plans to use Frankie as bait. Farnum takes the monsters to Skull Shores, claiming he has to pick up supplies before going to Great Scarrier Reef. Once docked, the group is welcomed by the local population, the Tiki. Farnum convinces them to keep the group entertained so that he can work out a trap for the beast. Suspicious, Lagoona and Gil sneak aboard Farnums boat to find out what Farnum's up to,and find a recording of the beast"
"Hank Marlow and Japanese pilot Gunpei Ikari, parachute onto an island in the South Pacific after a dogfight and engage in close combat, but the fight is interrupted by a giant ape. In 1973, U.S. government agent Bill Randa hires former British Special Air Service Captain James Conrad, a skilled tracker, to guide an expedition to map out a recently discovered island known as Skull Island. They are escorted by Lieutenant Colonel Preston Packard and his subordinates. The group is joined by anti-war photographer Mason Weaver, who believes that the expedition is a secret military operation, and intends to expose"
"The story features Vikings landing on Skull Island. From April though November 2017, Legendary Comics published a 4-issue miniseries based on the film, """", called Skull Island: The Birth of Kong. In the miniseries, which acts as prequel and sequel to the film, Kong's backstory and origins are revealed: his kind were killed eons ago in a brutal war with the reptilian monsters known as Skullcrawlers when they invaded Skull Island. Kong's parents were the strongest and the last two of his race to survive, and during the final battle with the Skullcrawlers, Kong was born in the melee and"
"such as snake-like amphibians with enormous heads capable of swallowing a human whole; foot-long creatures that combine squid and crustacean characteristics with bio-luminescent sails tipped with poisonous stingers; giant spiders with 7-foot bodies and 8-foot-long legs ending in hand-like appendages. The human civilization that inhabits Skull Island at least through the Twentieth Century is the last remnant of a previously unknown super-race called the Tagatu (a combination of two formerly separate tribes: the Tagu and the Atu). The original culture is believed to have Asian origins that bled into an island group west of Sumatra that no longer exists. As"
"a horde of monsters the Human Torch sealed his realm's entrance. The Mole Man appeared to have destroyed Monster Isle in an atomic blast. The Mole Man's Deviant-bred monstrous mutates, collectively known as the ""Mole Man's Monsters"", include the three-headed Tricephalous, the horned Megataur, and the flying bird-insect creature known only as ""Skreeal"". The Mole Man also has a group of superhuman allies called the Outcasts. The Mole Man later stole buildings from New York City, but was thwarted by the Fantastic Four and appeared to be killed in an explosion. With the Red Ghost, he next battled the Avengers"
"landed on the back of The Devil Whale on Easter Sunday. Soon as his monks started a fire to cook their meal, the """"island"""" began to swim away and the sailors quickly scrambled back to their boats. Devil Whale The Devil Whale is a legendary demonic whale-like sea monster, (or a sea turtle in some legends), that was first reported by St. Brendan. According to myths, this whale is of enormous size and could swallow entire ships. It is often mentioned in children's books. It also resembles as an island when it's sleeping, tricking sailors into putting ashore on its"
"Al-mi'raj Al-mi'raj or Almiraj (Arabic: المعراج ""al-mi'raj"") is a mythical beast said to live on a mysterious island called Jezîrat al-Tennyn (Sea-Serpent Island) within the confines of the Indian Ocean. According to legend, the beast was a gift given to Alexander the Great from the inhabitants of the island after he killed a large dragon that had been eating the livestock of the people there. It is mentioned in Zakariya Ib Muhammad Al-Qazwini's ""Marvels of Things Created and Miraculous Aspects of Things Existing"" (often times shortened to ""The Wonders of Creation""). Al-Mi'raj has been occasionally featured in video and role-playing"
"there appeared in the middle of the day an enormously large and abominable sea serpent, called the Sjøorm, in Lake Mjøsa, which was exceedingly long and very large, and it seemed to be coming from the island [i.e., Helgøya, the 'holy island'] and approaching the land of the king.) It then relates how one of the bishop's men killed the beast with an arrow and how they disposed of its enormous carcass. Finally, the chronicle describes the occasion and the events of the day that Bishop Mogens was captured and sent to Denmark. The bishop had to surrender because of"
"inexplicable event has occurred at the Natural History Museum, London—a forty-foot specimen of giant squid in formalin has disappeared overnight. Additionally, a murder victim is found folded into a glass bottle. Various groups are interested in getting the squid back, including a naive staff member, a secret squad of the London Metropolitan Police, assorted religious cults, and various supernatural and mostly dead criminal elements. The wondrous squid represents deity to the Church of Kraken Almighty. Did they liberate their god, or could it have been stolen by a rival cult? The only thing that all agree upon is that the"
"States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being ""culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant"". RKO Pictures (1933) A 1933 landmark black-and-white monster film about a gigantic gorilla named ""Kong"" and how he is captured from a remote lost prehistoric island and brought to civilization against his will. The film was made by RKO and was originally written for the screen by Ruth Rose and James Ashmore Creelman, based on a concept by Merian C. Cooper. A major on-screen credit for Edgar Wallace, sharing the story with Cooper, was unearned, as Wallace became ill soon after his arrival in"
"the sea for the past thousand years. By 1933, the island was on the verge of destruction. Fifteen years after its discovery to the modern world, Skull Island finally sank into the ocean. In its prehistory, Skull Island was a refuge for a variety of prehistoric creatures. Over time, more and more species arrived either by swimming, flying, rafting, or migrating through temporary land bridges. As the island slowly receded into the sea, life was forced to adapt, resulting in an ecosystem of bizarre and nightmarish creatures. Three thousand years before, an advanced civilization from Southeast Asia migrated to Skull"
"first being Iðunn's abduction by the giant Þjazi. Margaret Clunies Ross suggested that the two episodes might be complementary, both dealing with the abduction of a goddess by a giant, its failure and the death of the abductor. Another kenning may allude to this myth: in Eilífr Goðrúnarson's ""Þórsdrápa"" , Thor is called ""he who longs fiercely for Þrúðr"" (""þrámóðnir Þrúðar""). Þrúðr is mentioned on the 10th-century Karlevi runestone on the island of Öland, Sweden, where a chieftain is referred to as the ""tree of Þrúðr"". The name Þrúðr could be used in kennings for chieftains, as exemplified on the"
"both Skull Island and in New York. Jackson describes his central character: In the 2017 film """", Kong is scaled to be tall, making it the biggest incarnation in the series. Director Jordan Vogt-Roberts stated in regard to Kong's immense stature: He also stated that the original 1933 look was the inspiration for the design, saying: Co-producer Mary Parent also stated that Kong is still young and not fully grown as she explains, ""Kong is an adolescent when we meet him in the film; he's still growing into his role as alpha"". While one of the most famous movie icons"
"a groaning and a crying, then suddenly came a loud bang. A strange animal with a black serpentine body and a cat-like head jumped out of the cauldron and disappeared into the lake. The monster enjoyed living in the lake, grew unbelievably larger and awakened terror among the people whenever it appeared. Finally, it extended all the way round the island of Frösön, and could even bite its own tail. Ketil Runske bound the mighty monster with a strong spell which was carved on a stone and raised on the island of Frösön. The serpent was pictured on the stone."
"and is located at approximately – somewhere off the coast of Sumatra, Indonesia. There is a distinctive rocky knoll in the center of the island that is shaped like a human skull, which is referred to as ""Skull Mountain"". At first, the island is thought to be deserted, but upon further examination by the protagonists of the picture, it is filled to the brim with superstitious natives, prehistoric creatures of all sorts, and one extremely large gorilla, known by those on the island as ""Kong"". The ancestry of the natives is never really explained, although the setting suggests they are"
"the expedition. On 24 December 2015, a giant squid (possibly a sub-adult) appeared in Toyama Bay, Japan in a local harbor. According to a local diving shop owner, the squid was swimming normally when he dove alongside it, and after a few hours of being filmed in the harbor, the animal was guided back into the open ocean. The elusive nature of the giant squid and its foreign appearance, often perceived as terrifying, have firmly established its place in the human imagination. Representations of the giant squid have been known from early legends of the kraken through books such as"
"of its release. It has received more attention since Jackson's success with ""The Lord of the Rings"" trilogy. In 1957, explorer Stewart McAlden and his team smuggle a captured Sumatran rat-monkey, a hybrid creature that resulted from the rape of tree monkeys by plague-carrying rats, out of Skull Island. During the team's escape from the island's warrior natives, who demand the return of the creature, Stewart is bitten by the rat-monkey and is hacked to pieces by his crew, who fear the effects of the bite. The captured rat-monkey is then shipped to Wellington Zoo in New Zealand. In Wellington,"
"unknown but is presumed to be many decades. A blue iguana named ""Godzilla"" captured on Grand Cayman in 1950 by naturalist Ira Thompson was imported to the United States in 1985 by Ramon Noegel and sold to reptile importer and breeder, Tom Crutchfield in 1990. Crutchfield donated Godzilla to the Gladys Porter Zoo in Brownsville, Texas in 1997 and the lizard remained there until its death in 2004. Thompson estimated Godzilla to be 15 years of age at the time of his capture. At an estimated 69 years of age (54 of which were spent in captivity), Godzilla may be"
"spirits of the indigenous Taino population that formerly thrived on the Caribbean island. By her logic, the woman considers Groot to be Puerto Rican. Groot is an extraterrestrial tree monster who initially came to Earth seeking humans to capture and study. Groot was seemingly destroyed by termites used by Leslie Evans. Xemnu made a duplicate of Groot by making a human and tree hybrid that was used to fight the Hulk, but it was destroyed in the battle. Groot was later revealed to have survived, but was a captive of the Collector and held in his zoo in Canada until"
"large to be pulled from the water by hand, but a seaman aboard the ""Carpathia"", Jonas Briggs, managed to get a canvas sling under its belly, with which it was hauled aboard. This story, however, has been the subject of some controversy. The above narrative has typically been credited to Rigel's inventive savior, Jonas Briggs, who later adopted the dog. But researchers have raised doubts about his role in the story. They note that there is no record of a ""Jonas Briggs"" working aboard the ""Carpathia"" at the time. Moreover, none of the survivors in lifeboat number four mentioned the"
"who bore all the monsters in the sea. The rocks had surely been the nose of Hafgufa; the island, Lyngbakr; Ögmundar Eyþjófsbana had summoned the beasts to kill Oddr and his men. Both the lyngbakur and hafgufa seem to have derived from a single creature called the ""aspidochelone"" in the ""Physiologus"". The Icelandic Physiologus contains two illustrations of the aspidochelone, one with its back overgrown with vegetation and another with gaping jaws. ""Örvar-Odds"". Lyngbakr Lyngbakr (Icelandic, ""lyngi"" ""heather"" + ""bak"" ""back"") is the name of a massive whale-like sea monster reported in the ""Örvar-Odds"" saga to have existed in the"
"mysterious kidnapping of Sancha and the disappearance of several crew members convinces Conan to travel deeper into the jungle. Meanwhile, the island is revealed to be inhabited by a tribe of tall black humanoids (not black as in kushite or zembabweian, but rather jet black with strange golden-glowing eyes and clawed hands) who captured the crew, force one of the pirates into performing an ancient ritual (which involves having him dance and cavort wildly to the tune of a bizarre flute-like instrument with the power to ""lay bare the most secret lusts and passions of one's soul""), and proceed to"
"was a gigantic prehistoric ape, or as RKO's publicity materials described him, """"A prehistoric type of ape""."" While gorilla-like in appearance, he had a vaguely humanoid look and at times walked upright in an anthropomorphic manner. Indeed, Carl Denham describes him as being """"neither beast nor man"""". Like most simians, Kong possesses semi-human intelligence and great physical strength. Kong's size changes drastically throughout the course of the film. While creator Merian C. Cooper envisioned Kong as being """" tall"""", animator Willis O'Brien and his crew built the models and sets scaling Kong to be only tall on Skull Island, and"
"was playing with had closed onto his head and caused a fractured skull and severe blood loss. During his time in captivity, Kotar has sired six offspring; Takara, Keet, and Keto as well as three others that resulted in early deaths or stillbirths. Kotar (whale) Kotar was a male killer whale captured off the southeast coast of Iceland in October 1978. At the time of his capture he was only 210 cm long and because of this it is believed that he is/was the youngest killer whale taken into captivity from the wild that survived. He was bought by SeaWorld"
"a Humboldt squid carrying a specially designed camera clipped to its fin. The camera-bearing squid caught on film what was claimed to be a giant squid, with an estimated length of , engaging in predatory behavior. The footage aired a year later on a History Channel program, ""MonsterQuest: Giant Squid Found"". Cassell subsequently distanced himself from this documentary, claiming that it contained multiple factual and scientific errors. On 4 December 2006, an adult giant squid was caught on video near the Ogasawara Islands, south of Tokyo, by researchers from the National Science Museum of Japan led by Tsunemi Kubodera. It"
"girl whose head was discovered two years earlier. He was also the primary suspect in the disappearance of water buffaloes in the known area. In the examination of the stomach contents after his capture, no remnants of water buffaloes reported missing before Lolong's capture were found, nor human remains. The nongovernmental organization activist Animal Kingdom Foundation Inc., with the cooperation of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, had urged the local government of Bunawan to return Lolong to the creek of barangay Nueva Era, where the giant reptile was captured. But, in an ongoing debate, Bunawan mayor Edwin ""Cox"""
"landed sooner, the crew would have surely drowned. The ""rocks"" and ""island"" must have been two sea monsters—the great whale Lyngbakr, and Hafgufa. The rocks had surely been the nose of Hafgufa; the island, Lyngbakr; Ögmundar Eyþjófsbana had allegedly summoned the beasts to kill Oddr and his men. The 17th-century Danish physician Thomas Bartholin once published in a journal that he recalled having heard about St. Brendan saying Mass obliviously atop Hafgufa (he was either mistaken or misinformed; or possibly interpreted it with his own local gloss; the correct beast in this legend was the giant fish Jasconius). Later, William"
"the film at the Grand Canyon, Skullgrin took off his Pretender shell. Seeing this from nearby, Circuit Breaker finally had irrefutable proof that Skullgrin was a Transformer, and jumped into combat. She took control of Skullgrin's Pretender shell and attacked him with it. During the skirmish between Circuit Breaker and Skullgrin, Carissa Carr was caught on a crumbling cliff, but Skullgrin selflessly rescued her, though it gave Circuit Breaker the chance to press her attack. Before she could totally destroy Skullgrin, the Hollywood producer who had been dealing with Skullgrin called out to Circuit Breaker. He informed her that his"
"the westmost point of Stronsay. This is supposedly the beginning of a bridge between the two islands that the giant had failed to complete. The name derives from the Old Norse ""trolla-hlad"", meaning ""giant's causeway"". In 1905, ""The Orcadian"" newspaper reported that a strange creature had been seen off the coast of Shapinsay. It was reportedly the size of a horse, with a spotted body covered in scales. Opinion on the creature's origin was divided, with some islanders believing it to be a sea serpent, while others opined that it was merely a large seal. Shapinsay Shapinsay is one of"
"1973, follows a team of scientists and Vietnam War soldiers who travel to an uncharted island in the Pacific and encounter terrifying creatures and the mighty Kong. The film introduces King Kong, Mother Longlegs, Sker Buffalos, Mire Squid, Leafwing, Psychovulture, Spore Mantis, Ramarak, and the Skullcrawlers to the MonsterVerse and a post-credits scene introduces Rodan, Mothra, and King Ghidorah to the MonsterVerse. In July 2014 at the San Diego Comic-Con, Legendary announced a King Kong origin story, initially titled ""Skull Island"", with a release date of November 4, 2016, and Universal Pictures distributing. In September 2014, Jordan Vogt-Roberts was announced"