We've put together a list of 25 of the strangest ancient sea monsters ever to have lived, all of which went extinct long before humans came along. The only reason we know that these evolutionary ...

That’s why sea monsters were created! Ancient cultures invented mythological sea monsters in an effort to explain some of the mysterious events occurring in and around these vast bodies of water.

Languages: English, Spanish A mysterious whale behavior that was only recently observed by scientists may explain seemingly fantastical historical accounts of sea monsters, according to a study.

According to at least two ancient and medieval scholars, Alexander the Great encountered sea monsters during his campaigns.

In fact, it may have been observed and recorded by our distant ancestors — knowledge that was buried in ancient texts and ... from 1658 that shows a giant sea monster with two orifices on ...

The fossil of an ancient “super predator” which stalked the ocean depths has transformed scientists’ understanding of how sea creatures emerged. The Lorrainosaurus – named after the region ...

After studying 2000-year-old Norse manuscripts, he and his colleagues found that the descriptions of how the ancient sea monsters fed matched the trap behaviour recently observed in Bryde’s and ...

And swing by the museum at the end of the month for an in-person celebration of ancient sea monsters featuring toothy mosasaurs, giant sea turtles and specialty cocktails 75 million years in the ...

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Aboleths are among the oldest sea monsters in D&D. These ancient aberrations might remember a time before the gods and ...

Now researchers have conducted the first detailed analysis of plesiosaur soft tissue, offering a more complete look at what these real-life sea monsters ... counter to other ancient marine ...

Megalodon (Otodus megalodon) was another supersize version of a modern animal. Fossilized teeth suggest that megalodon, which reigned over ocean ecosystems between around 23 million and 2.6 ...