MYTHS

Like proud parents, scientists often give their discoveries the biggest, most impressive names they can think of.

Sort of.

Helen Duncan was known as a "materialization medium"—someone who could not just commune with the dead but produce physical manifestations of them.

Environmentalists protested the development of a road on both environmental and mystical grounds.

There once was a time when uttering the name Kraken sent chills down a mariner’s spine. The legendary beast was known for dragging whole ships down into the watery depths of Davy Jones’s Locker. Today we see the monster largely as fiction, but that doesn’

John Green lifts the veil on some of antiquity's greatest—and most mysterious—civilizations.

These eight fossils have been displayed as “evidence” of imaginary beasts like unicorns, dragons, and sea monsters.

Yuki-onna, Kuchisake-onna, and Hashihime are just a few of the fearsome figures from Japanese folklore that you don’t want to mess with.

Sharks are mysterious creatures. Even the origins of the word "shark" are unknown, though it might come from the Mayan word xok. Maybe that's what makes these 400 million year old denizens of the deep so captivating—and why they sometimes fill us with dre

Just because unicorns are mythical doesn’t mean they haven’t had a real impact on history. Just ask a narwhal!

Tall tales don't get much taller than America's most beloved lumberjack, Paul Bunyan. Here are 11 natural wonders he's said to have constructed.