Wonders of Nature and Imagination" exhibit at Harvard University's Museum of Natural History looks at creatures deep beneath ...

Sea monsters like the Kraken, serpents or the Loch Ness monster may be just in our imagination, but across history, these stories have roots in reality. Today, we still like to exaggerate and tell ...

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 ...

Meet Ruby Gillman. She is 16 years old, attends Oceanside High, and she just wants to fit in. That’s tough when you live near the ocean and your mom only has one rule: No going in the water. Ruby ...

The fossil record is filled with strange marine animals that would look like sea monsters if they were alive today. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.

The legendary Kraken has terrified sailors for centuries, appearing in myths as a colossal sea monster. Its story blends maritime folklore with real-world encounters in the deep.

A gigantic sea monster from the era of the dinosaurs has been discovered and named after a Norse snake. The 24-foot-long creature is a new species of mosasaur—aquatic, carnivorous lizards that lived ...

For most of human history, monsters were repugnant aberrations, breaches of the natural and moral order. What’s behind our ...

The untold true story that changed the course of history.

Peter Morics is a list writer from the United States. He has been writing about video games for five years. He started out as a news writer, covering some of the biggest moments in the industry, but ...