Many legendary creatures may have surprisingly ordinary origins rooted in misunderstood animals and fossils. The basilisk ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. These 'pez diablo,' or devil fish, are actually guitarfishes that have been caught, killed, dried and carved into exotic shapes.

Some of the wildest legends may actually be rooted in reality. Ancient people didn’t have science textbooks, just bones in the dirt and stories passed around the fire, and sometimes, those stories ...

Every culture has stories of beasts and monsters, many of them passed down for centuries. But monsters aren't real – right? Sorta. Many mythical monsters may have been based on real creatures with ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Some people are so fascinated with mythical creatures that they create their own, ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) James Marcus Drymon, Mississippi State University; Bryan Huerta-Beltrán, The ...