Mystery AtlasAddison Emery Verrill
American zoologist (1839-1926), Yale's first professor of zoology and the 19th century's leading scientific authority on the giant squid, who examined and briefly named the 1896 St. Augustine Monster 'Octopus giganteus' before retracting the identification himself within weeks.
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- St. Augustine MonsterDecember 1896
Addison Emery Verrill investigated St. Augustine Monster — Verrill examined the 1896 carcass, initially named it Octopus giganteus, then retracted the identification within weeks in favour of whale tissue.
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Addison Emery Verrill investigated Giant Squid — Verrill was the leading 19th-century taxonomic authority on Architeuthis, describing and cataloguing multiple stranded specimens including the 1873 Newfoundland example.