A sea creature mentioned in 13th-century Old Norse manuscripts, which historians thought was a kraken-like mythological monster, is actually a whale using a hunting strategy known as trap or ...

The remains of an enormous ancient "monster" whale, one of the biggest predators ever, have been discovered in the Peruvian desert. Speaking at a press conference on March 17, paleontologists said ...

LIMA ⁠— Paleontologists have unearthed the skull of a ferocious marine predator, an ancient ancestor of modern-day whales, which once lived in a prehistoric ocean that covered part of what is now Peru ...

(via PBS Eons) Unlike in fiction, giant whales do not emerge fully-formed from the ocean deep. So, where did Livyatan melvillei come from? How did such a large predator live? And what caused the titan ...

The attributes of the “hafgufa” are also similar to an even older legend of the “aspidochelone,” a which is depicted in medieval manuscripts dating to the 13th Century. British Library image ca. 1250 ...

A giant dead thing washed up on a UK beach and nobody can pinpoint exactly what kind of animal it was. Theories ranged from a cow to a whale to a mysterious "sea monster," but researchers are still ...

The discovery In May 1925 provided fodder for the argument between creationists and evolutionary biologists, but what does the science actually say?