Con Rit

What is fifty feet long, two feet wide, armoured brown body and bright yellow belly, that walks along the bottom of the ocean, off the coast of Indochina? Here’s a clue−it looks like a cross between a giant millipede and a Chinese dragon? It’s the Con Rit, the Vietnamese water dragon. If you’re wondering why you haven’t heard of this marvellous creature, it is because there has not been any Con Rit sightings for some time. During the 1860s and 70s there were a large number of Con Rit sightings and a Con Rit carcass was discovered in Along Bay in 1883 that fitted the description of the stories perfectly, and revealed that Con Rit’s segmented body parts were hexagonal shaped and that its legs were more like fins. Unfortunately, the head was missing and the stink off the carcass became so over powering that locals threw it back into the ocean. This was one creature that scientists were eagerly anticipating examining in the flesh, however they’re still waiting. Scientists, at that time, found Con Rit to be a credible creature, possibly more primitive whale than millipede or else a giant crustacean (the segments of a lobster were considered similar to that of Con Rit.) It also fits in with descriptions throughout oriental mythology of whiskered sea dwelling dragons, which lived in caves in the bottom of the ocean. Many scientists still believe that there are marine creatures who have managed to evade human discovery. In view of the fact that majority of new animal discoveries made are of invertebrates, a large invertebrate sea creature seems a possibility.