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 ...

For centuries, giant squids were treated as sea monsters and sailor myths, with only scattered clues hinting they were real.

Leviathan is one of the most feared monsters in ancient tradition, a vast creature of the deep associated with chaos, destruction, and the terrifying power of the unknown sea. In biblical writings, ...

In February 2026, online users claimed a video authentically showed a frozen, Hydra-like sea monster spotted in the side of an ice shelf. The 10-second clip featured a zooming-in shot purportedly ...

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 -- ...