Natalie Lawrence uncovers fascinating other-worldly natural history, creatures that embody our anxieties and our irrational terrors and give form to what we don't wish to know.

For years, if not millennia, people have believed in many of the tales and superstitions associated with these fictitious marine animals. There are a select few sea monsters that stand out among ...

The Mojave Desert may lose and gain suitable habitat for Gila monsters. But the unathletic reptiles might be mostly stuck in the waning oases.

A camera trap deployed by a Loch Ness researcher in 1970 was recently recovered by an autonomous robot. Not only was it still ...

After a century of decreased sightings, reports of a long-necked water monster the size of a hippopotamus are once again ...

Likewise, understanding that we are animals amongst animals. That we have punished other creatures, made them into monsters that can be vilified and exterminated, to escape parts of ourselves ...