Some horror movies make an effort to turn fairy tale or folklore creatures of myth that are usually thought of as whimsical into living nightmares.

PREHISTORIC wall paintings uncovered deep inside the Amazon rainforest depict animal-human hybrids and alien-like creatures. Instead of pointing to the existence of paranormal beings, researchers b… ...

A new study has mapped the evolution of this iconic creature across 12,000 years of rock art, revealing a stunning ...

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For millennia, the epic poems of Homer have profoundly shaped Western literature and thought with their timeless tales of ...

The San probably knew about the dicynodonts long before that, though, because their mythology includes descriptions of the creatures. Tying dicynodont fossils to both San myths and art shifts the ...

In the mid-20th century, dried guitarfishes emerged as a new generation of mythical creatures. This may be because their unique shape can be fashioned into more humanlike forms.

Like many of the creatures on this list, accounts of dragon-like beings go way back: They show up as giant serpents in Mesopotamian art, appear in the realm of the dead in ancient Egyptian ...