As people celebrate the beginning of the new Chinese lunar year, the Year of the Snake, what do snakes symbolize in mythology?

Polly Pozzo, a 15-year-old Valparaiso resident with muscular dystrophy who can't walk or speak, brightens up when her father ...

Journey into prehistory as the article explores seven monstrous serpents that once ruled land and sea. From the colossal Titanoboa in ancient Colombia to the transitional form Eophis in England and ...

Led by guides from the region’s Tuareg communities, you’ll uncover the Sahara’s secrets, including prehistoric rock art carved and painted ... species such as marine iguanas, giant tortoises, ...

It’s like Mother Nature’s own abstract art installation, complete with a sulfuric ... Photo credit: Cammy W Lin (kaymih) Today, the beach sparkles with a rainbow of sea glass. It’s like walking on a ...

Admire shadows cast from these large-scale creatures or pose with the 350-foot serpent that stretches ... slip into their original giant pool or jacuzzi under the stars, after dining at the old school ...

As we enter the Year of the Snake, we take the opportunity to revisit the starring roles of this mystic animal in art. Snake is the sixth animal sign in the 12-year zodiac cycle and based on ...

Languages: English. A father from the dark side has lent his title to a giant creature from the deep sea, with scientists having named a "sea bug" Bathynomus vaderi. The bug—which belongs to a ...

Scientists have newly identified a “supergiant” sea bug species after purchasing ... Currently, there are only 11 known “supergiant” and nine “giant” Bathynomus species, with several ...

Or it might be the head of Medusa, the Gorgon whose hair of writhing snakes and petrifying gaze have haunted myth and art alike ... his sons are ensnared by sea serpents. Then, of course ...