"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Ever since we started telling stories, mythical creatures have fascinated and terrified humans with their ...

The gryphon, or griffin, is a legendary creature dating back to classical antiquity, sporting the body, legs, and tail of a lion and the wings, head, and front talons of an eagle. Since the 1980s, a ...

Back in the day, as far back as Pliny the Elder, it was widely accepted that mythical creatures such as unicorns roamed the Earth. And while these beings have firmly been labeled as “not real” (for ...

If science proves anything, it’s that there’s much of the world humans don’t know about. Given this sentiment, who’s to say that there really are no such things as the mythical creatures from ...

The earliest ever depiction of a hunting scene has been discovered in a cave in Indonesia. The rock art, which shows human-like figures hunting buffalo and pigs, has been dated to around 44,000 years ...

Royal Oak — The Detroit Zoo is stepping up from the lions, tigers and bears it is known for and adding dragons, griffins and phoenixes to its lineup this summer. The zoo this weekend opened Dragon ...