In novels like “Moby Dick” or “20,000 Leagues Under the Sea,” monsters exist to aggravate and impinge on human life. Science, folklore, and fiction have villainized deep sea creatures for centuries, ...

MIDDLEBURY, CT (WFSB) - A carousel figurine that was stolen from Quassy Amusement Park about 40 years ago has been returned. The park said the sea monster, also known as a hippocampus by carousel ...

A fossil mosasaur skull and partial skeleton excavated from Angola’s costal cliffs. Credit Hillsman S. Jackson, Southern Methodist University. The story of prehistoric ocean life that emerged in the ...

CAMBRIDGE — Monstrous is a relative term. No monster’s quite so monstrous, let alone scary, as the ones produced by the human imagination. That’s especially the case when large bodies of water are ...

Machine generated contents note: Classical Antecedents -- The Earliest Medieval Maps with Sea Monsters: Beatus Mappaemundi -- "Let the Waters Bring Forth Abundantly": Sea Monsters in the Creation -- ...

Compare the sizes of legendary sea monsters throughout history.

As the veteran 'Who' antagonists get ready for their close-up, we look back at 50 years of underwater history.

The historian Procopius described how a creature called Porphyrios terrified sixth-century sailors for 50 years. But what was it? A sixth-century Byzantine mosaic depicts an amphibious monster—though ...

Something’s going on with our monsters. They used to feast on humans with abandon, burn our villages, prowl the margins of the map; now they’re seeking therapy. The fangs are still there, but they’re ...