Smithsonian's Sea Monsters Unearthed traveling exhibition begins national tour, sharing a missing chapter in Earth's history.

At a time when the mortality rate for distant maritime voyages was 50 percent, the Bible, legend, and lore gave birth to a sea full of extraordinary danger. The original "Carta Marina" was 23 square ...

Despite the vastness of the Gulf of Mexico, if you type in “Pensacola sea monster” in an internet search you’re most likely going to find most results centered on one story from March 1962. I was ...

Long before the age of dinosaurs, Earth’s oceans were teeming with lifeforms that defied imagination. These were not anything like modern animals—no heads, no legs, no eyes as we know them. Picture ...