An artist's drawing of a mosasaur attacking another mosasaur underwater. Scientists have named an ancient species of giant sea lizard with "angry eyebrows" and a stumpy tail after Jörmungandr, a sea ...

For decades in the 19th and even early 20th centuries, sea serpent sightings were commonplace. Most famously, the crew of HMS Daedalus supposedly watched one for more than 20 minutes in 1848. Not long ...

What do you do when a mysterious sea serpent is prowling warm Gulf waters? You catch it, chop it up and make it into soup. That's the lesson learned in a segment in Nashville writer Allen Sircy's new ...

Scientific buoys immersed deep in the sea off the French Riviera reveal the secrets of the giant oarfish: the creature most likely to be behind the myth of the Sea Serpent. Advertisement ...

Jormungandr, a 24-foot aquatic lizard that lived 80 million years ago, is found to be a transitional species between two well-known mosasaurs “If you put flippers on a Komodo dragon and made it really ...

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These creatures are but a few examples of the myriad mythical creatures that are said to inhabit the world's oceans. The mermaid's lore stretches far beyond the European tales of sirens luring sailors ...

For as long as mankind has walked the earth, it has known fear and rightly so. There have always been predators that may charge across a savannah in search of their next meal, and serpents and spiders ...

Why the transatlantic telegraph cable conjured dreams of sea monsters. Hayley Brazier In summer 2022, I was performing research in the archives of the National Museum of American History when I read ...