Typhon, or Typhoeus as he was also called, was a monstrous, serpentine creature with a hundred heads that could shoot fire ...

Much like similar derogatory titles “siren” and “fury”, the term “harpy” is derived from a group of monstrous female figures ...

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"I've seen a lot of strange insects, but this has to be one of the most peculiar-looking ones I've seen in a while," said one entomologist.

From Monstrum: The impossible, three-headed monster of Ancient Greek mythology, the Chimaera, may have started off as a fantasy, but today, the word “chimera” can be used to refer to anything ...

If you are like me, you enjoyed junior high English the most when our focus was on Greek mythology. Learning about the ...

In Greek mythology the Titan Atlas bore the weight ... but used different myths. The gods, creatures and heroes in myths are supernatural beings in a battle of good versus evil, but were given ...

A 99-million-year-old wasp species used a Venus flytrap-like abdomen to capture prey and may represent a new insect family, revealing unexpected diversity in ancient parasitoid behavior. An extinct ...

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According to Greek mythology, Medusa was a young and beautiful ... or a winged female monster with snakes for hair that could turn anyone to stone with just one look—the Medusa you might ...