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A paleontologist observing a pattern of prehistoric bones from a bus-sized ancestor of the modern sperm whale has come up with a whopper of a fish tale. Analyzing the arrangement of the bones has led to the theory that a giant mythical monster known as the Kraken dined on the whale-like creature, picked it down to the bones and methodically laid the bones in a systematic fashion.

So does this mean the Kraken lives? Well, not exactly. The existence of the Kraken has never been proven, but one scientist says he might know where it lived. More accurately, one paleontologist is speculating it lived and thinks he has stumbled upon its home. Mount Holyoke College paleontologist Mark McMenamin says he has found evidence that he says lends credibility to the mythical creature known in Norse Mythology as the Kraken.

They did not actually find Kraken remains. Giant squid do not have bones and most of their bodies are composed of soft tissue and decay quite rapidly. This makes the study of this creature so elusive. The evidence is at Berlin-Ichthyosaur State Park in Nevada, where McMenamin and his daughter conducted field studies over the past few months. It's a site where the remains of nine 45-foot ichthyosaurs have been discovered. The Ichthyosaur was known to be a whale-like creature that swam not only on the top of the water (air-breathing), but also at the top of the food chain. That theory is now being challenged by the discovery of evidence that giant Kraken feasted on the mighty leviathans, making them the king of the sea.

McMenamin's examination of the bones of the large leviathans, which are said to be neatly arranged, suggests that they were placed and did not come to rest naturally. It became very clear that something very odd was going on there," said McMenamin. "It was a very odd configuration of bones."

"Modern octopus will do this," McMenamin said. While it remain only in the realm of theory, McMenamin is sticking to the story. "I think that these things were captured by the kraken and taken to the midden and the cephalopod would take them apart."