Alexander the Great is said to have encountered sea monsters during his campaigns. Credit: Johann Bayer / Public domain / Wikimedia Commons As one of the most famous figures in human history, it comes ...

SCIENTISTS have finally cracked the mystery behind a "very odd" long-necked sea monster found on the coast ... The bizarre elasmosaurus is actually one of North America's most famous fossils ...

and sea monsters in general. These representations were influential for centuries and are still discussed in our own time. They are the ancestors of the decorative whales that dot oceans on modern ...

Click on a head for handy fact pages about extinct sea animals featured in the 2003 series Sea Monsters. Photos and facts are from the programmes. Related Links Elsewhere on Prehistoric Life ...

Relief sculpture of Scylla, fourth century BC. Credit: Metropolitan Museum of Art. Public Domain. Ancient Greek mythology is full of a huge variety of monsters. Since the Greeks were a sea-faring ...

In novels like “Moby Dick” or “20,000 Leagues Under the Sea,” monsters exist to aggravate and impinge on human life. Science, folklore, and fiction have villainized deep sea creatures for ...

Our Northumberland Strait area has had its share of these, sometimes very descriptive, accounts of sea monsters. The Mi’kmaq First Nations people of the Maritime provinces have several legends ...

Since ancient times, the sea has provided innumerable tales of serpents, sirens, and sea monsters across a vast array of cultures. Both fascinating and daunting in equal respects, the sea is home ...

It would be easy to imagine the cartographer invented them on the spot,” says Chet Van Duzer, cartographic historian and author of Sea Monsters on Medieval and Renaissance Maps. Magnus’s map ...

Some of these bodies of water are largely incomprehensible to humans and unexplored. That’s why sea monsters were created! Ancient cultures invented mythological sea monsters in an effort to explain ...

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