Most of the legendary creatures that fill up the fantasy films and novels of today have long, storied histories dating back to early cultures and primordial myths many don't know much about.

We carry around a lot of assumptions about animals, often shaped by old stories, cartoons, or scenes in movies. Some of these ...

Some of the wildest legends may actually be rooted in reality. Ancient people didn’t have science textbooks, just bones in ...

What if you discovered that the next hurricane warning didn’t come from a scientist, but from a grandmother pointing to a ...

In folklore, animals are depicted as messengers, symbols, or omens. Many of these stories are similar in cultures throughout millennia and feature folk beliefs brought on by fear of death, illness, ...

The Old Farmer’s Almanac has aggregated a couple dozen adages about insects, animals and their ability to predict weather patterns. Some of the claims are dubious. Dogs eating grass, for example ...