Ancient cultures invented mythological sea monsters in an effort to explain ... and resiliency of those who dare to confront ...

Sea monsters have a prominent role ... or generally getting up to no good,' Jon says. In ancient Greece, Aristotle and Pliny wrote about teuthos (squid). There's the Scylla in the Odyssey and similar ...

An ancient wasp may have zipped among the ... Scientists named the new wasp Sirenobethylus charybdis, partly for the sea monster from Greek mythology that stirred up wild whirlpools by swallowing ...

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

Ancient Greek mythology and art depict lions ... National Air and Space Museum Please explain why melting icebergs will raise sea levels. When ice melts in a glass, it doesn’t affect the ...

They’ve named the wasp Sirenobethylus charybdis—a reference to the famous female sea monster of ancient Greek legend ... As is often the case in Greek mythology, there are varying origin ...

An ancient wasp may have ... charybdis—both after the sirens of Greek mythology that lured in sailors to their doom and after Charybdis, a mythical sea monster that created large whirlpools ...

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 ...