Deep beneath the ocean surface, where sunlight disappears and strange creatures rule the darkness, a creature exists that ...

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, ...

Until now, the earliest known instance of human interest in ichthyosaurs was in 1699, but a peculiar discovery pushes that timeline way back—all the way to the Roman era. Around the third quarter of ...

ST. MICHAELS — 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 ...

It’s a typical summer afternoon on Nantucket: day-trippers disembark from ferries, children line up for ice cream cones, and church bells peel in the sea breeze. But soon a 75-foot sea monster is ...