Here's a gorgeous sea serpent illustration from 1753. This drawing is said to be from a witness sketch, and was originally featured in Pontoppidan's Natural History of Norway in 1753. If I was ...

But one can be reasonably certain that nobody would expect to encounter a 10-foot oarfish under attack by sharks. The oarfish in question, a serpent-like denizen with crimson f ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The silvery carcasses of two giant oarfish were discovered along the Southern California coast last week, baffling scientists and gaining a growing online following who gawked ...

This depiction of the Gloucester sea serpent was created in the 1880s-1890s, per the Cape Ann Museum. The caption says it's "engraved from a drawing taken from Life" in an August 1817 sighting. If we ...

Only 20 oarfish have washed up in the state since 1901, making the sighting of the deep-sea fish “incredibly rare,” according Scripps' in-house fish expert Ben Frable.

One such account of an encounter with a sea serpent came from the sailors aboard the HMS Daedalus in 1848 as they voyaged across the South Atlantic to Saint Helena, an island off the west coast of ...