As a Potterhead, there’s nothing you can teach me about mythical creatures, magic, and fantasy. But it turns out the many ...

According to a popular and widespread belief, the mythical griffin – that eagle-faced, winged lion monster – was inspired by dinosaur fossils discovered by ancient peoples. But new analysis ...

The mythological creatures are instead “chimeras of big cats and ... Since the 1980s, a popular "geomyth" has spread that the griffin's unique appearance was inspired by the fossilized skeleton ...

Unicorns are arguably one of the most popular mythical creatures even today, so it just makes sense that there’s a day dedicated to them. Every year on April 9th we celebrate everything unicorn.

Some postmedieval historians have argued it was a derivative of other mythical creatures, such as mermaids or the Kraken. Other texts referred to it as a type of whale-fish.

Black Myth’s mythical world is inhabited by creatures both big and small⁠. Known as Yaoguai, these monsters often take the shape of humanoid animals, talking, walking on two legs and fighting ...