A mysterious rock painting in South Africa’s cave could be the first-ever artwork of an animal that disappeared 250 million years ago. The San people’s “Horned Serpent Panel” features a strange ...

Solomon David, an aquatic ecologist and assistant professor at Nicholls State University, inspired the online challenge Tuesday (July 31) after he spent a writing break drawing his creature of study, ...

The Loch Ness Monster — real or fiction? (Photo by Sam Forencich/Corbis. Design by Erik Mace for Yahoo Travel.) Even small children know that monsters are something you run away from. Yet, there are ...

Explore the real-life inspirations behind legendary creatures like mermaids, Kraken, Pouakai, dragons, unicorns, and Roc. These mythical beings may have roots in actual animals like manatees, giant ...

Some of the animals have human features, like penises, and are stood on their hind legs with arms outstretched in human form. PREHISTORIC wall paintings uncovered deep inside the Amazon rainforest ...