In Ancient Greek times, there were stories about ____ sea monsters with very ____ arms. Similar stories ____ in the Middle Ages. These monsters ____ in very deep ____, but sometimes they attacked ____. However, were these ____ real or were they a ____? For hundreds of ____, scientists were not ____. But that changed ____ 1873. A giant squid attacked a small ____ near the east coast of ____ America. The fishermen in the boat used an ____ to cut off two of the giant squid’s ____. They were six ____ long! They showed the arms to the ____ at a local ____. The scientists were ____! Today, everyone knows that giant squid are ____, but people very rarely see them. In fact, only one video. About 2,500 years ____, an Ancient Greek ____ called Hanno travelled to ____. On one ____ near the coast, there was a ____ of strange people ____ black hair on their ____ and bodies. He asked the ____ people for ____ about them: they were ‘gorillae’, they ____. These ‘people’ were ____, bad-tempered and very ____. And for ____ of years, there were ____ stories about strange ____ - half human and ____ animal - in the forests of Africa. The ____ scientific description of ____ only appeared in the 19th ____.And mountain gorillas were a complete mystery until a German ____ discovered them in 1902 The ____ Egyptians were familiar ____ the okapi, a strange ____ from the forests of Africa. It ____ like a mix between a zebra ____ a horse. In the 19th ____, the famous British ____ and explorer Henry Stanley ____ the same animal. But ____ it all a myth? An English politician in ____ Africa, Henry Johnston, was very interested ____ Stanley’s description. He decided to ____ the animal. It was not ____, but in 1901 Johnston ____ managed to get a complete okapi ____. He sent it to London and the ____ there were ____. Later, they ____ that the okapi is not a type of ____ - in fact, it is a ____ of the giraffe. During the First World ____ (1914-18) a pilot crashed into the ____ near Indonesia. Luckily, he could ____ well. He ____ one of the smaller islands. He was safe! Or was he? On the ____, he discovered a ____ monster. It looked like a ____: it was very big with ____ legs and a long ____. It attacked and ____ large animals ____ food. The pilot ____ and later he described the ____ to his friends. They ____ at him! But in fact, the animal ____ real: it was a Komodo dragon, the ____ lizard in the world. In 1927, London Zoo ____ its new Reptile House and it ____ the first pair of Komodo dragons ____ Europe.

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