Legends, stories, and images turned it into a symbol of the Middle Ages that would transcend ... a great serpentlike sea monster with nine heads. (Here are 6 of the world’s coolest dragon ...

In the European Middle Ages, monster stories served as religious teaching ... In this way, perhaps our own modern world is not so different. In Venantius’ story, the dragon haunts a tomb as ...

“Medieval Monsters: Terrors, Aliens, Wonders” takes the visitor on a jaunt through Europe’s Middle Ages via its beasties ... Medieval power-brokers used monster motifs to demonstrate ...

spanning European mapmakers from the Middle Ages to the Enlightenment. Historical maps, like this world map from the Portolan Atlas by Battista Agnese, included wind heads—illustrations of human ...

WASHINGTON — The iconic sea serpents, mermaids and other mythical creatures found on world maps from medieval and ... 85 million-year-old mystery sea monster fossil finally identified Giant ...