I found it very interesting that back in the 1500s people did not know what whales were, because I have never thought of all the unknowns that would have occurred to them. Once our guide explained about the story of the crew on ships seeing these huge monsters out at sea. It made since why people used to believe they looked like dragons of the sea and artist began to incorporate them into their paintings. In the earlier paintings they started out as dragon-like sea creatures. Gradually as technology advanced, the image of whales transformed from sea creatures into a reflection of what we know a whale looks like today. In the Maritime museum, one could look through all of the painting and see the progression between these stages, which I found very interesting.