Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For as long as mankind has walked the earth, it has known fear and rightly so. There have always been predators that may charge ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Meet Ruby Gillman. She is 16 years old, attends Oceanside High, and she just wants to fit in. That’s tough when you live near the ...

Some of these creatures were once thought to be myths, as many seafarers have recorded sightings of sea beasts like the giant kraken and the ship-drowning leviathan. Imagine the creatures lurking ...

In May 1925, a strange decaying corpse washed ashore on Moore’s Beach, now known as Natural Bridges State Beach, in Santa Cruz. Locals who swarmed out to investigate the specimen described elephantine ...

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 ...

A digital reconstruction of a humpback whale trap feeding, a behavior with striking similarities to the feeding habits of the "hafgufa" described in medieval Norse texts. John McCarthy, Flinders ...

In 2011, scientists recorded a previously unknown feeding strategy in whales: they simply opened their mouths to let fish swim in. Now, researchers think this behaviour may not be as new as it seems.

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 ...