Some horror movies make an effort to turn fairy tale or folklore creatures of myth that are usually thought of as whimsical ...

Art like this empowers us to time travel and explore what our early ancestors have felt.” Guarding stones “This Trow, inspired by folklore of the Orkney and Shetland islands, is guarding a collection ...

PREHISTORIC wall paintings uncovered deep inside the Amazon rainforest depict animal-human hybrids and alien-like creatures. Instead of pointing to the existence of paranormal beings, researchers b… ...

For millennia, the epic poems of Homer have profoundly shaped Western literature and thought with their timeless tales of ...

A new study has mapped the evolution of this iconic creature across 12,000 years of rock art, revealing a stunning ...

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But there are so many other mythical creatures out there that also deserve our attention and respect. Right now these creatures are being overshadowed -- even oppressed -- by the unicorn, but we ...

In the mid-20th century, dried guitarfishes emerged as a new generation of mythical creatures. This may be because their unique shape can be fashioned into more humanlike forms.

The San probably knew about the dicynodonts long before that, though, because their mythology includes descriptions of the creatures. Tying dicynodont fossils to both San myths and art shifts the ...

Like many of the creatures on this list, accounts of dragon-like beings go way back: They show up as giant serpents in Mesopotamian art, appear in the realm of the dead in ancient Egyptian ...