New fossil discoveries are forcing scientists to redraw the boundaries of ancient oceans, suggesting that some of the most ...

Compare the sizes of legendary sea monsters throughout history.

In novels like “Moby Dick” or “20,000 Leagues Under the Sea,” monsters exist to aggravate and impinge on human life. Science, folklore, and fiction have villainized deep sea creatures for centuries, ...

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 ...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A Muslim rights group criticized a federal judge on Wednesday, complaining he had compared the civil liberties of Muslim Americans to a "hideous sea monster" while tossing out ...

At a time when the mortality rate for distant maritime voyages was 50 percent, the Bible, legend, and lore gave birth to a sea full of extraordinary danger. The original "Carta Marina" was 23 square ...