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Sea monsters have a prominent role in myths and legends of most ... We knew it was real and not a mythical beast from people's imaginations, but we're still really just getting to know them.' Found in ...

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A riotous photography collection from a recent underwater mission off the coast of Chile shows new and fascinating deep-sea ...

A calving iceberg exposed a region that never before had been seen by human eyes, revealing a vibrant, thriving ecosystem ...

An extinct lineage of parasitic wasps dating from the mid-Cretaceous period and preserved in amber may have used their Venus ...

Caption Above: Ortelius's 1658 map of Iceland showing various mythological sea creatures. Below, a detail of a sea creature labelled H, ‘the greatest of whales’ which could not chase fish but ...

But long before there was a Christian devil, God had a first worst enemy: the great mythical sea monster, best known by the name Leviathan. The cosmic showdown of god versus sea monster has roots deep ...