The deep sea has long fascinated us, hiding secrets and mysteries far beyond our reach. For centuries, terrifying sea monster ...

Mythical Sea Monsters May Have Been Whales Acting Weirdly. Published Feb 28, 2023 at 3:00 PM EST. By . Aristos is a Newsweek science and health reporter with the London, U.K., bureau.

Was the Kraken a sea monster in Greek mythology? If not, where did it come from and what was its ancient Greek counterpart?

A giant sea monster, the likes of the mythological kraken, may have swum Earth's ancient oceans, snagging what was thought to be the sea's top predators — school bus-size ichthyosaurs with ...

These Mythical Sea Monsters May Have Been Whales With Unusual Dining Habits Tales of creatures like the Norse “hafgufa” suggest ancient and medieval people may have seen whales trap feeding.

WASHINGTON — The iconic sea serpents, mermaids and other mythical creatures found on world maps from medieval and Renaissance times splash to life on the pages of a new book.

Though the phrase itself is found on only one other historical artifact—a 1504 globe crafted on an ostrich egg—depictions of monsters and mythological beasts are common on early maps.

Norse mythology talked about giant sea monsters lurking in the ocean, ready to devour fish and ships that dared cross their path. As far-fetched as these stories were, many hold a grain of truth ...

Locals are calling the creature "Alty," a.k.a. Altamaha-ha, a mythological sea monster rumored to lurk in the coastal marshes near Georgia's Altamaha River How did the Loch Ness Monster of ...

John McCarthy, a maritime archaeologist at Flinders University, Australia, believes whales could have been the inspiration for mythological Norse sea monsters known as hafgufa.