cartographic historian and author of Sea Monsters on Medieval and Renaissance Maps. Magnus’s map was one of the first geographic representations of Europe, and it came at a time when people ...

These sea monsters grew upwards of 40 feet (12 meters) long. About half that length was neck, a feature that allowed Styxosaurus to sneak up on schools of fish as it slowly cruised the shallow ...

Elasmosaurs make up a family of the plesiosaurs, which represent some of the largest sea creatures of the Cretaceous ... a paleontologist with the National Scientific and Technical Research ...

Their name translates to "black sea monster”—but despite their ferocious appearance, experts say "they’re mostly soft and squishy." On January 26, a team of researchers in the Canary Islands ...