Scientists Identify a ‘Very Odd’ 85-Million-Year-Old Sea Monster, Say ‘The Fossil Is Full of Surprises’ A new study ...

including Biblical references to a serpent-like sea creature. It was also based on descriptions that Magnus collected from sailors who described a massive monster near the Norwegian coast.

The long-necked plesiosaur Traskasaura sandrae—which grew up to 39 feet long—is "unlike any other," said researchers.

Sea monsters have a prominent role in myths and legends of most seafaring cultures on Earth and with such inspiring ocean biodiversity, it's not difficult to see why. Join Oliver Crimmen, Senior ...

But researchers have traced references to the hafgufa back to a ... that the hafgufa was a type of whale and not a fantastical sea monster. "Norse people were huge seafarers.

At the time they were complied, McCarthy noted, these texts were intended to be a serious reference work ... drawing from 1658 that shows a giant sea monster with two orifices on its head spewing ...

A brand new species of elasmosaur named Traskasaura sandrae has been identified from three specimens found on Vancouver ...

A prehistoric sea monster never-before-known to man was hunting prey in North America 85 million years ago, fossils found decades ago in Canada reveal.