Sea monsters are myths. There no real sea monsters in reality, but reality sure does come close. Take the giant phantom ...

The open ocean has always made room for imagination. For centuries, sailors swore they saw monsters bigger than ships, smarter than people, and hungry enough to pull a crew straight off the deck. No ...

For hundreds of years, the Kraken was a source of terror in people's minds as a gargantuan creature with unimaginable power that was said to live under the ...

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 ...

In the late 1970s and early 1980s, the Chesapeake Bay gained a mystery. Multiple sitings of an unknown creature stirred concern and intrigue that a sea monster lurked in Maryland and Virginia’s waters ...

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 ...

The headless chicken monster is a type of sea cucumber. Many animals have acquired silly nicknames from amused humans. Raccoons are trash pandas. Snakes are danger noodles. Ocean dwellers aren’t ...

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 -- ...