After hearing about evidence of a prehistoric animal remains found in the Triassic rocks in the Alps that could show an animal bigger than a Blue Whale, I thought it'd be a interesting venture to dip into. And also based off of the already proven to be fake cryptid, the Bloop.

Iirakteer, horn of africa island natives' tongue for "Kraken hunter". "Bloop" or diep reus (deep giants)

Family: Shonisaurid Ichthyosaur

Habitat: Outside of the breeding/calving seasons, it is assumed to live in the open oceans out hunting solitarily. During the breeding/calving season, it prefers shallow, warm seas to raise their young until theyre strong enough venture with their mother. Known calving grounds are in the Caribbean Sea, around the Horn of Africa where it split from the main continent and became its own small sub continent or large island, depending on who you ask. Other locations are Sri Lanka, Southeast Asian waters where it does have to compete with other apexes. But this species actually is the dominant apex ocean species in the Indian Ocean while being rarer to find in other oceans.

Size: When born, the calves start out at 25 feet long. But as they grow, they reach sexual maturity at around 120 feet in length and 70 tons in weight. But this is one of those species where it will grow threw out it's life and long lived. Confirmed reports with these animals being seen in their calving grounds reaching sizes up to 300 feet long with weight classes, depending on size, being from 100-400 tons. But the indigenous folklore from tribes who already live near calving grounds tell tales of animals reaching 500 feet, bringing about the myth of living islands.

Speed: normal cruising speed is generally around 3-6 mph, but when lunging for food they reaches up to 30 mph.

Lifespan: The oldest recorded and confirmed individuals are close to 500 years of age, but with the unconfirmed reports of massive animals, it can be assumed that they can live longer, possibly up close to 1000 years of age.

Diet/hunting: Being one of the major apexes in the ocean, it surprisingly goes after small prey. But with the throat space the size of a watermelon, it either goes after soft bodied prey or tiny prey in massive swarms. With this said, it goes after both large squids, aka krakens, that live in the black abyss of the oceans, and hunts massive bait balls and schools of fish like how baleen whales do. When hunting krakens in the abyss, it uses echolocation to hunt and captures them with its long jaws and conical teeth near the front of said jaws to secure and thrash it around to kill it. The rest of the teeth down its jaws are thin and spaced to allow filter feeding when hunting schools of fish, feeding like a baleen whale, straining out water after it engulfed the shoal in its mouth and elastic throat pouch.

Social/Parenting: As stated, outside of the breeding season, it lives a solitary life style if not accompanied by a calf. It only gets to socialize during the mating season in shallow waters, where females raise their newborns in temporary pods for safety, feeding on fish only during this period and feeding their young cropmilk, and males move in between pods to see if any females are willing to mate. They pods stay together for 8 months before moving out to sea and raise their calves by themselves and teach them how to hunt. The calves will stay by their mother for 6 years until it knows how to properly hunt on its own. Solitary adults do socialize via distant calls that can be heard for thousands of miles away, from what few recordings there are of their calls, it sounds like a series of clicks and bloop sounds, giving them their nickname. When solitary animals do meet in the open ocean, they actually don't fight, but instead they will play together and show a lot of affection to each other for hours before going their separate ways to hunt alone. Though when one animal is in danger, it will call for help to any others that can reach it, though it only does this out of desperation for which a fully grown adult, apex or titan size Iirakteer is a monster not many can stand up to in strength.

Conflicts: The problem with this species is that it is extremely migratory and has a world wide distribution, leading to it having territorial disputes with other apex species in the area, like massive elasmosaurs and mosasaurs. One of the very select few predators it has that poses an extreme danger is the monstromasaurus, which it subdues the mighty sea beast by grappling behind its head and clawing it so much that it bleeds out to death. With humans and other small species that don't pose a threat to it, the massive animal actually either very passive or friendly and curious. It even goes as far as protecting them predators, using its size, powerful tail and flippers to deture or fight the threats away. Some individuals form bonds with some people and will even make yearly trips to visit their little friends and their families over its long life.

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