Deep beneath the ocean surface, where sunlight disappears and strange creatures rule the darkness, a creature exists that ...

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, ...

This phrase translates from the Latin as “here are dragons.” It is etched on the eastern coast of Asia on one of the oldest terrestrial globe maps, the Lenox Globe, dating to 1510. Though the phrase ...

Does it freak anyone else out that we know so little about the ocean? Although it covers about 70 percent of our planet we have only explored 5 percent of it. Think about it! That means that 95 ...

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 ...