If you’ve been following my column for a while, you know that there are many kinds of constellations in the sky. You also know that most of these look ...

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Typhon, or Typhoeus as he was also called, was a monstrous, serpentine creature with a hundred heads that could shoot fire ...

One such ancient story centers on the bronze sentry Talos. Forged by Hephaestus, the Greek god of smiths and artisans, Talos ...

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B Manjunath Kamath conjures up new creatures and narratives, using unexpected fragments of men, gods, birds and bovines ...

I desired dragons with a profound desire,” fantasy writer J.R.R. Tolkien once said about his childhood imagination, ...

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The prop had been previously sold in an auction for $1.49 million last year. George R.R. Martin said many people believed the dire wolf was a mythical creature The dire wolf is an animal that holds ...

This unique holiday is a whimsical tribute to many people’s favorite mythical creature – the unicorn. If it feels a little silly to celebrate something made up… that’s sort of the point.