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, ...

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 -- ...

Between 66 million and 215 million years ago, long-necked reptiles called plesiosaurs inhabited the world's oceans. By examining their fossilized skeletons, paleontologists have learned a lot about ...

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 ...

Not long ago a chunk of fossil fell off a cliff onto a Dorset beach where it was chanced upon by a fossil hunter called Phil. On its flank was incised the most humungous set of fearsome gnashers. He ...

Giant mosasaurs, once thought to be strictly ocean-dwelling predators, may have spent their final chapter prowling freshwater ...

Paleontology researchers in Europe have identified a new species of ancient marine reptile – often referred to as a "Jurassic sea monster" or "sea dragon" – that existed nearly 183 million years ago.

Scientists say sea monster is a new kind of animal. This unidentified specimen belonging within Relicanthidae is a sea creature that was previously thought to be a giant sea anemone (order Actiniaria) ...

Humans have a long history of misinterpreting ancient fossils. Here are 10 creatures from the dinosaur age that looked way different than we thought. When you purchase through links on our site, we ...

If you happened upon this bizarre creature in the ocean, you could be forgiven for thinking someone had flung a chicken carcass into the sea and it was bobbing along on the current — hence its ...

The Whaling Museum in Cold Spring Harbor ramps up to the busiest time of the year, preparing for thousands to travel across Long Island for its Sea Glass Festival this month. Although only in its ...