A figurehead from a 15th century ship has been raised to the surface of the Baltic Sea near Ronneby, Sweden – more than 500 years after it sank.
A team from Sweden’s Blekinge Museum and Södertörn University raised a "sea monster" from the depths of the Baltic Sea recently. Though it may have looked monstrous to divers scouting the area, the beast is actually a 520-year-old figurehead from a ship belonging to Danish King Hans, according to Archeology.org. The ship, named Gribshunden, or “Grip Dog,” was anchored in the Swedish town of Ronneby when it sank after a fire in 1495. The creature, carved at the end of an 11-foot-long beam, has lion ears and a crocodile-like mouth holding what appears to be a person.
