Here's a gorgeous sea serpent illustration from 1753. This drawing is said to be from a witness sketch, and was originally featured in Pontoppidan's Natural History of Norway in 1753. If I was alive ...

Ahoy, local boat owners. Be advised “a veritable sea serpent” was spotted near Wood Island in the fall of 1886. Two witnesses, Augustus Fernald and Hiram Tobey, both of Kittery, reported seeing what ...

An artist's drawing of a mosasaur attacking another mosasaur underwater. Scientists have named an ancient species of giant sea lizard with "angry eyebrows" and a stumpy tail after Jörmungandr, a sea ...

A nymph or nude boy with wavy locks of hair sits atop a sea serpent or a dolphin. The boy's legs are bent and his feet rest on top of the serpent's head. The boy's head is turned to the proper right ...

For decades in the 19th and even early 20th centuries, sea serpent sightings were commonplace. Most famously, the crew of HMS Daedalus supposedly watched one for more than 20 minutes in 1848. HMS ...

In mythological images, one usually sees sea serpents striking from turbulent oceans to wrest a fleeing sailing ship into the murky depths. So the 100-foot serpent rising from a dry pond bed in Golden ...