"I've seen a lot of strange insects, but this has to be one of the most peculiar-looking ones I've seen in a while," said one entomologist.

The sea monsters present on maps can teach us much about the Renaissance imagination. Stemming from Greek mythology, sea sirens are half-woman, half-fish creatures that lure sailors off their ...

Much like similar derogatory titles “siren” and “fury”, the term “harpy” is derived from a group of monstrous female figures from ancient Greek and Roman mythology. In Greek and Roman myth, the ...

Sea monsters have a prominent role in myths and legends of most ... London 'Many cultures around the world have a myth or legend about a tentacled beast bothering seamen or generally getting up to no ...

Typhon, or Typhoeus as he was also called, was a monstrous, serpentine creature with a hundred heads that could shoot fire ...

A 99-million-year-old wasp species used a Venus flytrap-like abdomen to capture prey and may represent a new insect family, revealing unexpected diversity in ancient parasitoid behavior. An extinct ...