In the early nineteenth century, 'fossil showman' Albert Koch made a career out of exhibiting ... He called it the Missouri Leviathan - referring to the biblical sea monster - and had some pretty ...

In 2010 a whale fossil made a splash when it was dubbed Leviathan melvillei. There’s a rare Australian horsefly that goes by Scaptia beyonceae and a tree frog from Ecuador called Hyloscirtus ...