The open ocean has always made room for imagination. For centuries, sailors swore they saw monsters bigger than ships, smarter than people, and hungry enough to pull a crew straight off the deck. No ...

For hundreds of years, the Kraken was a source of terror in people's minds as a gargantuan creature with unimaginable power that was said to live under the ...

Although the squid may appear at first glance to have "teeth like a human," in reality the feature consists of "circular, folded lips, of which only the upper and lower portions can be seen." The ...

In May 1925, a strange decaying corpse washed ashore on Moore’s Beach, now known as Natural Bridges State Beach, in Santa Cruz. Locals who swarmed out to investigate the specimen described elephantine ...

China’s jet-powered ekranoplan spotted for the first time: Could this ‘Bohai Sea Monster’ redefine sea-air transport in military operations?- China’s jet-powered ekranoplan — a new type of ...

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 ...