Greek mythology is full of artifacts endowed with supernatural powers, in addition to a myriad of unforgettable gods, ...

The aspidochelone first appeared in the "Physiologus"—an ancient manuscript written in Greek that originated ... Top, Ortelius's 1658 map of Iceland showing various mythological sea creatures. ...

Ortelius's 1658 map of Iceland showing various mythological sea creatures. Below, a detail of a sea creature labelled H, 'the greatest of whales' which could not chase fish but caught them through ...

After studying 2000-year-old Norse manuscripts, he and his colleagues found that the descriptions of how the ancient sea monsters fed matched the trap behaviour recently observed in Bryde’s and ...

Or maybe via the 1963 film Jason and the Argonauts, famed for Ray Harryhausen’s stop-motion animation bringing to celluloid life for the first time the gods and monsters of Ancient Greece.

The Chimera was a fearsome creature from Ancient Greece that was a mixture of animal features, said to inhabit Lycia in Asia Minor or Anatolia, Turkey. What features you ask? Well, take a lion, then ...

The ancient Norse sagas are filled with mythical creatures, but some of these sea monsters may have been whales displaying behaviours that have modern-day scientists mystified.

Ortelius's 1658 map of Iceland showing various mythological sea creatures. Below, a detail of a sea creature labelled H, 'the greatest of whales' which could not chase fish but caught them through ...

Scientists are puzzling over a strange feeding technique that they think whales recently began using: The creatures swim to the surface of the ocean, open their mouths into a gaping yawn with ...