Explore the real-life inspirations behind legendary creatures like mermaids, Kraken, Pouakai, dragons, unicorns, and Roc. These mythical beings may have roots in actual animals like manatees, giant ...

The phoenix bird is a mythical creature that resembles an eagle with ... It is not a real bird found in nature. Just as the dragon was a figment of collective imagination, the story of the sacred ...

One of the most impressive creatures in the ocean, every centimetre of the peacock ... endangered in Queensland in 1992 by the International Union for Conservation of Nature, and still faces threats ...

The story of the team’s incredible discoveries is told in First Animals, a documentary from The Nature of Things ... considered the fossils of these creatures to be “the world’s most ...

This precious creature is said to have dwelled in a pond hidden deep ... The likeness shows the mythical being in its hybrid animal form. Also closely linked to nature were the mythical Stolemy (or ...