That’s why sea monsters were created! Ancient cultures invented mythological sea monsters in an effort to explain some of the mysterious events occurring in and around these vast bodies of water.

"I've seen a lot of strange insects, but this has to be one of the most peculiar-looking ones I've seen in a while," said one entomologist.

Much like similar derogatory titles “siren” and “fury”, the term “harpy” is derived from a group of monstrous female figures from ancient Greek and Roman mythology. In Greek and Roman myth, the ...

Geologists near Starkville found a bone of a Mosasaurus hoffmannii, one of the biggest species of mosasaurs, which could reach lengths of 50 feet.

Researchers named the parasitic creature Sirenobethylus charybdis —both after the sirens of Greek mythology that lured in sailors to their doom and after Charybdis, a mythical sea monster that created ...

Now researchers argue the mighty hafgufa, and similar sea monsters described by the ancients, were not mythical creatures ... The link to ancient legends was forged by John McCarthy, a marine ...

An ancient wasp may have zipped among the ... Scientists named the new wasp Sirenobethylus charybdis, partly for the sea monster from Greek mythology that stirred up wild whirlpools by swallowing ...

A world of myth and artistry awaits at The National Gallery this spring with the rare unveiling of the Carracci Cartoons. On ...