“The Alleged Saurian Monster.” Thames Star. October 5, 1886. https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/THS18861005.2.15
Árnason, Jón (trans. George J. Powell and Eiríkr Magnússon). Icelandic Legends (Longmans, 1866).
Atsma, Aaron J. “Ikhthyokentauroi.” Theoi Project. Accessed July 14, 2023. https://www.theoi.com/Pontios/Ikhthyokentauroi.html
Ault, Alicia. “Renaissance Europe Was Horrified by Reports of a Sea Monster That Looked Like a Monk Wearing Fish Scales.” Smithsonian Magazine. October 25, 2016. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/reports-sea-monster-looked-like-monk-wearing-fish-scales-horrified-renaissance-europe-180960885
Bane, Theresa. Encyclopedia of Beasts and Monsters in Myth, Legend and Folklore (McFarland, 2016).
Boran, Elizabethanne. “The Sea Bishop.” Mythical Creatures at the Edward Worth Library. Accessed July 14, 2023. https://mythicalcreatures.edwardworthlibrary.ie/sea-creatures/sea-bishop
Boran, Elizabethanne. “The Sea Monk.” Mythical Creatures at the Edward Worth Library. Accessed July 14, 2023. https://mythicalcreatures.edwardworthlibrary.ie/sea-creatures/sea-monk
“Conrad Gessner.” Centre for Renaissance and Reformation Studies. Accessed July 14, 2023. https://crrs.library.utoronto.ca/exhibits/show/crrs-natural-history-books/gessner
Fitzhugh, William W. Inua: Spirit World of the Bering Sea Eskimo (Smithsonian Institution Press, 1982).
Franklin, James L. “Steller’s Sea eagle: Who was Georg Wilhelm Steller?” Hektoen International. Winter 2023. https://hekint.org/2023/02/02/stellers-sea-eagle-who-was-georg-wilhelm-steller
Frost, Natasha. “Remembering the ‘Saurian Monster’ That Terrorized 1880s New Zealand.” Atlas Obscura. May 23, 2018. https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/saurian-monster-new-zealand
“Gaping Crowd Watches Sea Monster At Wasaga.” The Daily Sun-Times. June 3, 1938. https://www.newspapers.com/image/727549284
Garry, Jane and Hasan El-Shamy (eds.). Archetypes and Motifs in Folklore and Literature: A Handbook (M.E. Sharpe, 2005).
Gessner, Conrad. Nomenclator aquatilium animantium (E Typographeio Iohannis Lancelotti, 1606).
Heddle, Donna. “Selkies, Sex, and the Supernatural.” The Bottle Imp 20. November 2016. https://www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2016/12/selkies-sex-and-the-supernatural
Hendrikx, Sophia. “Monstrosities from the Sea. Taxonomy and tradition in Conrad Gessner’s (1516-1565) discussion of cetaceans and sea-monsters.” Anthropozoologica 53(11), August 3 2018: pp. 125-137. https://sciencepress.mnhn.fr/sites/default/files/articles/pdf/az2018v53f2a11.pdf
Jenness, Diamond. “Stray Notes on the Eskimo of Arctic Alaska.” Anthropological Papers of the University of Alaska 1(2), May 1953: pp. 5-13. https://www.uaf.edu/apua/files/Jenness1953May.pdf
Keane, Basil. “Taniwha.” Te Ara—The Encyclopedia of New Zealand. September 24, 2007. https://teara.govt.nz/en/taniwha
“Kópakonan (Seal Woman).” The Faroe Islands. Accessed July 15, 2023. https://old.visitfaroeislands.com/en/be-inspired/in-depth-articles/legend-of-kopakonan-(seal-woman)
“Last evening (Wednesday).” The Waikato Times. December 10, 1887. https://www.newspapers.com/image/941327885
Mackal, Roy P. Searching for Hidden Animals: An Inquiry into Zoological Mysteries (Doubleday & Company, 1980).
Mackenzie, Louisa. “French Early Modern Sea-Monsters and Modern Identities, Via Bruno Latour.” In Animals and Early Modern Identity, ed. Pia Cueno (Ashgate, 2014).
“Man-seal.” Encyclopedia of Cryptozoology. Accessed July 15, 2023. https://cryptidarchives.fandom.com/wiki/Man-seal
McEntire, Nancy Cassell. “Supernatural Beings in the Far North: Folklore, Folk Belief, and the Selkie.” Scottish Studies 35, 2010: pp. 120-143. http://journals.ed.ac.uk/ScottishStudies/article/view/2692/3791
Nelson, Edward William. The Eskimo About Bering Strait (Government Printing Office, 1900).
Nickell, Joe. “Steller’s Sea Ape: Identifying an Eighteenth-Century Cryptid.” Skeptical Briefs 26(4). April 24, 2017. https://skepticalinquirer.org/newsletter/stellers-sea-ape-identifying-an-eighteenth-century-cryptid
Nosowitz, Dan. “Shipwrecks, Scurvy and Sea Otters: The Tale of the First European in Alaska.” Atlas Obscura. April 24, 2015. https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/naturalist-georg-wilhelm-steller
“Pierre Belon’s Sea Creatures.” Paws, Hooves, Fins & Feathers. Accessed July 14, 2023. https://digital-exhibits.library.nd.edu/717b14e1a3/paws-hooves-fins--feathers/showcases/959c729af5/pierre-belons-sea-creatures
Pinon, Laurent. “Conrad Gessner and the Historical Depth of Renaissance Natural History.” In Historia: Empiricism and Erudition in Early Modern Europe, ed. Gianna Pomata & Nancy G. Siraisi (MIT Press, 2005).
Rainbolt, Dawn. “Selkies: Irish Myths and Legends Part 4.” Wilderness Ireland. March 24, 2020. https://www.wildernessireland.com/blog/irish-myths-legends-part-4-selkies
Rogers, Kara. “Georg W. Steller.” Encyclopedia Britannica. Accessed July 15, 2023. https://www.britannica.com/biography/Georg-W-Steller
Sack, Harald. “Conrad Gessner’s Truly Renaissance Knowledge.” SciHi Blog. March 26, 2023. http://scihi.org/conrad-gessners-renaissance-knowledge
“The Saurian Monster.” Aukland Star. October 29, 1887. https://www.newspapers.com/image/933888657
“The ‘Saurian’ Monster.” Aukland Star. December 6, 1887. https://www.newspapers.com/image/933887457
“The Saurian Monster.” New Zealand Herald. October 1, 1886. https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/NZH18861001.2.26
“The ‘Saurian Monster.” The Waikato Times. December 3, 1887. https://www.newspapers.com/image/941327583
“The ‘Saurian Monster.’” The Wanganui Herald. November 1, 1886. https://www.newspapers.com/image/928701724
“Saurian Monster Captured.” The Taranaki Herald. November 26, 1886. https://www.newspapers.com/image/882210165
Scott, Michon. “Conrad Gesner.” Strange Science. September 25, 2022. https://www.strangescience.net/gesner.htm
“The Seal’s Skin.” The Viking Rune. Accessed June 15, 2023. http://www.vikingrune.com/selkies-folktale
“‘Slim the Whittler’ Has No Fear of Seal-Like Monster.” The Windsor Star. June 6, 1938. https://www.newspapers.com/image/501146384
Smeeton, Miles. The Misty Islands: Sailing the High Latitudes in Tzu Hang (McKay, 1978).
Steller, Georg Wilhelm (trans. Orcutt William Frost). Journal of a Voyage with Bering, 1741-1742 (Stanford University Press, 1988).
Thaler, Andrew. “The Secret History Behind Steller’s Sea Ape.” The Portalist. October 19, 2016. https://theportalist.com/the-secret-history-behind-stellers-sea-ape
Thaler, Andrew. “Unraveling the mysteries of Steller’s Sea Ape.” Southern Fried Science. October 4, 2011. https://www.southernfriedscience.com/unraveling-the-mysteries-of-stellars-sea-ape
Towrie, Sigurd. “The origin of the selkie-folk.” Orkneyjar. Accessed July 15, 2023. http://www.orkneyjar.com/folklore/selkiefolk/selorig.htm
Towrie, Sigurd. “The Selkie-folk.” Orkneyjar. Accessed July 15, 2023. http://www.orkneyjar.com/folklore/selkiefolk/index.html
Various Authors. Folktales of Water Spirits, Kelpies, and Selkies (Read Books Limited, 2010).
“The Waikato Saurian Monster.” Wanganui Chronicle. October 28, 1886. https://www.newspapers.com/image/883924400
“The Waikato Saurian Monster.” The Wanganui Herald. November 8, 1887. https://www.newspapers.com/image/928796493
“The Waikato Wonder.” Southland Times. October 27, 1886. https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/ST18861027.2.8
“The Woman and the Sealskin.” Icelandic Folktales. Accessed July 15, 2023. https://icelandicfolktales.com/the-woman-and-the-sealskin