Some mythical creatures from totally different parts of the world look similar, and we can't always explain this with ...

You might be surprised to learn that many words have origins from ancient Greek and Roman mythological creatures. Here are 12 ...

When the animal kingdom met the artistic imagination, the result was a whole zoo full of fantastical creatures from dragons to unicorns, phoenixes to sphinxes. These strange mythological beasts haven ...

Some of the wildest legends may actually be rooted in reality. Ancient people didn’t have science textbooks, just bones in the dirt and stories passed around the fire, and sometimes, those stories ...

Dr. Witton added, "Not all mythological creatures demand explanations through fossils. Some of the most popular geomyths—Protoceratops and griffins, fossil elephants and cyclopes, and dragons and ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WJAR) — The Roger Williams Park Zoo celebrated the opening of a new exhibit Dragons & Mythical Creatures on Tuesday. Zoo officials said the new exhibit features 60 life-sized dragons ...

The Jigoku-zoshi (“Handscrolls of Buddhist Hell”) is a Japanese scroll from the late 12th century that graphically depicts naked, horrified monks running away from bands of vicious, animal-headed ...