Greek mythology’s mythological Hydra is a fearsome, enormous serpent-like beast. It has numerous heads, sometimes nine or ...

In Greek and Roman myth, the harpies were a group of animal-human hybrid monsters on par with other such mythological creatures like ... Western coast of the Black Sea near the modern day Turkish ...

Originating in Scandinavian folklore, the kraken is usually depicted as an aggressive cephalopod-like creature ... the kraken myth grew and such washed-up specimens were interpreted as messages from ...

Researchers named the parasitic creature Sirenobethylus charybdis —both after the sirens of Greek mythology that lured in sailors to their doom and after Charybdis, a mythical sea monster that created ...