From a sea monster's head being on the wrong end of ... four-legged creature, with early illustrations and sculptures depicting a giant reptilian creature with the head of a crocodile and a ...

An artist's illustration of a plesiosaur, based on new research that finds these now-extinct sea monsters had both smooth and scaly skin. Joschua Knüppe Plesiosaurs were long-necked reptiles that ...

Here’s how it works. When Nazi pilots bombed a precious "sea monster" fossil to smithereens during a World War II London air raid, a detailed black-and-white illustration of the predatory marine ...

An illustration of a giant pair of swimming Ichthyotitan severnensis, a marine reptile that paleontologists believe may have been the orca of its day. The discovery began with an unusual fossil ...

An illustration of a Mosasaurus ... "This was definitely a sea lizard." Geologists in Mississippi found the vertebra of a mosasaur, a predatory marine lizard that lived in the Cretaceous period ...

The tales of the sea monsters, for the most part, do not function as parables or fairy tales. They are not morality lessons. They instead seem to work primarily as illustration. They are ...

From a sea monster's head being on the wrong end of ... the book "Dinosaurs Rediscovered" (Thames & Hudson, 2019). Modern illustrations of Megalosaurus depict a predator that was built more ...