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The discoverers originally assigned—in July 2010—the English name of the biblical monster, Leviathan, to the whale as Leviathan melvillei. However, the scientific name Leviathan was also the junior synonym for the mastodon ( Mammut ), [ 6 ] so, in August 2010, the authors rectified this situation by coining a new genus name for the whale ...
The Destruction of Leviathan by Gustave Doré (1865). The Leviathan (/ l ɪ ˈ v aɪ. ə θ ən / liv-EYE-ə-thən; Hebrew: לִוְיָתָן, romanized: Līvyāṯān; Greek: Λεβιάθαν) is a sea serpent demon noted in theology and mythology.
The Leviathan of the Book of Job is a reflection of the older Canaanite Lotan, a primeval monster defeated by the god Baal Hadad.Parallels to the role of Mesopotamian Tiamat defeated by Marduk have long been drawn in comparative mythology, as have been wider comparisons to dragon and world serpent narratives such as Indra slaying Vrtra or Thor slaying Jörmungandr, [1] but Leviathan already ...
The Shawnee Lookout Archeological District is a historic district in the southwestern corner of the U.S. state of Ohio. [1] Located southwest of Cleves in Hamilton County's Miami Township, [2] the district is composed of forty-six archaeological sites spread out over an area of 2,000 acres (810 ha). [1]
[2] [4] The elongated lumbar vertebrae of Zygophyseter indicate it had larger multifidus and longissimus back muscles and was, thus, faster than the modern sperm whale which, [2] comparable to other large open-ocean animals, travels horizontally at 4 km/h (2.5 mph).
Bathydevius is a swimming sea slug that glows with bioluminescence and has a body with a paddle-like tail and a large gelatinous hood, and it’s the first sea slug found to live in the deep ocean.
One of three venomous snakes native to Ohio, the eastern massasauga is rare in Ohio and only found in a few select locations throughout the state, Kristin Stanford, wildlife diversity coordinator ...
The myth of Hadad defeating Lotan, Yahweh defeating Leviathan, Marduk defeating Tiamat (etc.) in the mythologies of the Ancient Near East are classical examples of the Chaoskampf mytheme, also reflected in Zeus' slaying of Typhon in Greek mythology, [8] Thor's struggle against Jörmungandr in the Gylfaginning portion of the Prose Edda, [9] and ...