Some mythical creatures from totally different parts of the world look similar, and we can't always explain this with cultures coming into contact. I'm not talking about Roman and Greek overlaps, but ...

Journey to the West’s most well known character is arguably Sun Wukong, the monkey king who joins the monk on his pilgrimage to retrieve sacred buddhist texts in the Chinese novel. For English ...

A triceratops skull may have served to generate tales about a griffin, a mythical creature with the body, tail and back legs of a lion, eagle’s talons as its front feet, and the beak-like head and ...

Across the world, humans have told stories of creatures so strange and powerful they blur the line between myth and reality. Some may be echoes of ancient animals long extinct, while others reflect ...