"I've seen a lot of strange insects, but this has to be one of the most peculiar-looking ones I've seen in a while," said one entomologist.

The sea monsters present on maps can teach us much about the Renaissance imagination. Stemming from Greek mythology, sea sirens are half-woman, half-fish creatures that lure sailors off their ...

Much like similar derogatory titles “siren” and “fury”, the term “harpy” is derived from a group of monstrous female figures ...

Sea monsters have a prominent role in myths and legends of most ... London 'Many cultures around the world have a myth or legend about a tentacled beast bothering seamen or generally getting up to no ...

Typhon, or Typhoeus as he was also called, was a monstrous, serpentine creature with a hundred heads that could shoot fire ...

Researchers named the parasitic creature Sirenobethylus charybdis —both after the sirens of Greek mythology that lured in sailors to their doom and after Charybdis, a mythical sea monster that created ...

An extinct species of parasitic wasp dating back nearly 99 million years was found preserved in amber, according to researchers.

A 99-million-year-old wasp species used a Venus flytrap-like abdomen to capture prey and may represent a new insect family, revealing unexpected diversity in ancient parasitoid behavior. An extinct ...