My Lariosaurs: myths, legends and reality
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My Larisaurus - how the name came about.
Captain Hellen and Captain Vol have always been fascinated by the legends that the fantastic landscapes of Lake Como have given birth to over the millennia. The most fascinating of all is linked to the monster of Lake Como, the Lariosaurus from the Latin name of the lake, Larius.
It goes without saying that the name of the company and the boats of their partnership could only be chosen in honor of the Mythical Monster.
My Lariosaurus indeed.
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Lariosauro - The legend
Monsters in Lake Como have been talked about several times.
The most famous is the Lariosaurus which began to be written and talked about widely after the Second World War (1946), previously they were stories told in the evening near the fireplace fire.
Some important newspapers and periodicals from Lombardy and beyond, such as La Nazione, Il resto del Carlino, Il Tempo, La Domenica del Corriere etc. They report alarming news of sightings* in the most various localities of the Lario and attacks by the monster, thus, for a certain intensity for a few months, and then on various occasions until the end of the millennium.
The most numerous sightings seemed to take place in the locality of Lierna near the beach of Borgo di Grumo di Lierna. There were fossil discoveries of the species Lariosaurus balsami, which was locally called "Lierni". The Lariosaurus balsami will be represented in some Mickey Mouse comics as a cute animal.
In 1946 the newspapers spoke of a mysterious animal several meters long that appeared at Pian di Spagna, in the northern part of the lake, two hunters came across a strange creature about ten meters long. Taken by surprise and scared by the presence of the strange being, they reacted by opening fire. The creature thus dived back into the waters to disappear into the depths of the lake, then appeared in Varenna. In 1954, an animal with a rounded snout and back and legs "like a duck" was spotted in Argegno. In August 1957 a huge monster appeared between Dongo and Musso. In September 1957 a group of biologists dived to explore part of the lakebed with a bathysphere and swore they had seen a strange animal with a head similar to that of a crocodile. In the 1950s a series of sightings followed one another
Could it really be the Lariosaurus? After a few decades of silence, at the beginning of the new millennium we started talking about the Lariosaur again. In 2003, a group of fishermen scouting the lake claimed to have noticed the shadow of a strange, mammoth-sized creature.
However, divers who dived more than one hundred meters below the level of the dark waters of the lake discovered some caves and ravines in which the remains of fishing nets and other objects were found. Which would suggest the presence of a living being that wanders precisely in those caves.
Furthermore, historians from Como say that the largest fish in the lake, the legendary "bulberi", as large as a man and impossible to catch due to their size and indestructible armor of scales, took refuge in the blue or Bulbari cave. their bulk broke the nets and their armor of scales broke the harpoons. Were they Lariosaurs?
Lariusaurus really existed
The lariosaur (gen. Lariosaurus) is an extinct aquatic reptile (perhaps not!!) belonging to the notosaurs, which lived in the Middle Triassic (Anisian - Ladinian, approximately 245-235 million years ago).
The Lariosaurus was an aquatic predator that moved by swimming thanks to its powerful front "fins" and with the help of its long tail. The skull, with long front teeth, is shaped to trap small fish and other slippery prey.
The first known specimen of Lariosaurus came to light in 1830 in Perledo, a town near Lake Como, also known by the name of Lario. The finds were studied and described by Giuseppe Balsamo Crivelli in the magazine Il Politecnico di Milano in 1839. Balsamo Crivelli, waiting for it to be confirmed that it was an animal never previously described, preferred not to give it a name. Only in 1847, having established that it was a new species (and a new genus), Giulio Curioni gave it the name Lariosaurus balsami.
Another fossil found belonging to the same species was improperly called Macromirosaurus plinii. The best preserved specimen is exhibited in the Botanical Museum in Munich. Other specimens are preserved at the Geological Service of Rome and two are exhibited at the Natural History Museum of Lecco.
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