Fact Check: Real 'little sea monster' image has swum across social media for over a decade

Two of the paper's three authors, Richard Young and Michael Vecchione, put a full-color version of the photo on the squid's ...

This sea monster sank ships off Constantinople for 50 years—was it an orca?

The historian Procopius described how a creature called Porphyrios terrified sixth-century sailors for 50 years. But what was ...
AOL

Giant ‘sea monster’ fossil unearthed in Mississippi mud

The remains of a giant “sea monster” that once dominated the oceans was unearthed by geologists on a riverbank in the Mississippi River, scientists have said. Geologists discovered a fossilised single ...
The Harvard Crimson

“Sea Monsters” Exhibit Blurs Border Between Monster and Human

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, ...
WWNO

A giant sea monster shows up on Nantucket 87 years after an elaborate hoax

Eighty-seven years ago, a local artist perpetrated a spectacular prank on the residents of Nantucket, the Massachusetts island. The artist, Tony Sarg, was big in his day. Edgar B. Herwick III of ...
The World from PRX

New exhibit explores sea monsters across countries, cultures and deep beneath the sea

Sea monsters like the Kraken, serpents or the Loch Ness monster may be just in our imagination, but across history, these stories have roots in reality. Today, we still like to exaggerate and tell ...
insider.si.edu

Sea monsters on medieval and Renaissance maps / Chet Van Duzer

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 -- ...