Megalodon usually gets all the attention when it comes to sea monsters, but ancient oceans were full of predators just as ...

In his publication Sea Fables Explained (1883), he wrote, “… the descriptions by ancient writers of so-called ‘fabulous creatures’ are rather distorted portraits than invented falsehoods, and there is ...

An image shared in October 2025 depicted a real "little sea monster" that appears to have "teeth like a human." Although the squid may appear at first glance to have "teeth like a human," in reality ...

The open ocean has always made room for imagination. For centuries, sailors swore they saw monsters bigger than ships, smarter than people, and hungry enough to pull a crew straight off the deck. No ...

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In May 1925, a strange decaying corpse washed ashore on Moore’s Beach, now known as Natural Bridges State Beach, in Santa Cruz. Locals who swarmed out to investigate the specimen described elephantine ...

The headless chicken monster is a type of sea cucumber. Many animals have acquired silly nicknames from amused humans. Raccoons are trash pandas. Snakes are danger noodles. Ocean dwellers aren’t ...

The historian Procopius described how a creature called Porphyrios terrified sixth-century sailors for 50 years. But what was it? A sixth-century Byzantine mosaic depicts an amphibious monster—though ...

Before we even saw them, the water began to thump and roll. Giant black drum were stacked beneath the surface in massive schools, turning the sea into something that felt alive with real monsters ...