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Monsters

Introduction

The word monster has been there in the human vocabulary for a long time. However, creatures that are deemed to be monsters have existed long before. The definition of the monster implies a physically reformed animal or an imaginary creature. It also related to something inhumane. Though applied to animals or imaginary figures, what we in reality have that some humans tended to defy the meaning of monsters and committed acts that were far more ignominious in proportions than those that are associated with monsters. Earth has witnessed the rise of dinosaurs as monstrous creatures. They were terrifying figures who roamed the earth for millions of years. We still have monstrous on earth in the shape of fierce guerillas, bears and other carnivorous animals. In The Sea, we have sharks, squids and other creatures that have not even been explored. They are terrifying figures capable of inflicting harms. However, these creatures are nothing when you compare them to what some humans have been doing. The two world wars and the brutalities that were witnessed are no less terrifying than the thought of monsters roaming free on The Street. We will examine some monsters from within the animals including those who dwell on earth and those found in the Sea along with those which have ceased to exist and the monsters within the human race. By examining these different monsters, some insight will be reached as to which is the most ignominious and cruel ones.

Thesis statement

The biggest monsters that need to be feared live within us and it is quite useless fearing the monsters that are found within the animals at earth or sea or those that are the result of our imagination.

Discussion

Dinosaurs

The first monsters to roam on earth were the dinosaurs. These creatures have been the largest monsters in size that lived millions of years ago. Between 208 and 144 million years ago, dinosaurs inhabited the earth's surface and became a dominant group in upland environments. Many of these animals were herbivores, but there were some carnivorous species which fed on amphibians, insects and even other dinosaurs.

At the end of the Cretaceous period, the extinction of dinosaurs and many other species of animals and plants occurred. There are many theories about the mass extinction of living organisms, one of which is that certain movements suffered by the continents caused changes in ocean currents and also the planet's climate. This made the temperature drops, causing bitter winters, consequently leading to the disappearance of living things that inhabited the earth.

Another theory about the extinction of the dinosaurs which is widely accepted by the scientific community is that an asteroid approximately 10 km in diameter had struck the Earth's surface, causing an explosion similar to 100 trillion tons of TNT (Osborne et.al, pp 11-12).

In 1990, this theory was reinforced after a group of scientists met in Mexico to observe a crater 180 km in diameter. Geological studies conducted at the site suggested that this collision would have occurred 65 million years ago, ...