Everyone loves a good sea shanty. Wonderful songs of alternating solos with a chorus. This well-recognized genre was initiated by sailors who helped pass the time during incredibly long voyages by ...

For thousands of years, sailors told stories of the Kraken—a massive, many-armed sea monster said to drag entire ships beneath the waves. Ancient Greeks wrote of similar beasts, Norse fishermen swore ...

Giant mosasaurs, once thought to be strictly ocean-dwelling predators, may have spent their final chapter prowling freshwater rivers alongside dinosaurs and crocodiles. A massive tooth found in North ...

In May 1925, a strange decaying corpse washed ashore on Moore’s Beach, now known as Natural Bridges State Beach, in Santa Cruz. Locals who swarmed out to investigate the specimen described elephantine ...

Machine generated contents note: Classical Antecedents -- The Earliest Medieval Maps with Sea Monsters: Beatus Mappaemundi -- "Let the Waters Bring Forth Abundantly": Sea Monsters in the Creation -- ...

What do you do when a mysterious sea serpent is prowling warm Gulf waters? You catch it, chop it up and make it into soup. That's the lesson learned in a segment in Nashville writer Allen Sircy's new ...