Throughout our history, the magazine’s storytelling has relied on photographers—and on artists such as Fernando Gomez Baptista.

Do you like scary stories?” asks a character in Handkerchief, one of a series of interlocking tales from The Midnight ...

Discover how 200 year old South African rock art might show a horned serpent from dicynodont fossils. San people as early ...

The route starts in Konyaalti, near Antalya, and ends in Fethiye, and can be traversed in a few days on wheels ...

Jörmungandr, Hel, and Fenrir—captures the tension between destiny and desperation, friendship and betrayal, and power and ...

What do you do when a mysterious sea serpent is prowling warm Gulf waters? You catch it, chop it up and make it into soup. That's the lesson learned in a segment in Nashville writer Allen Sircy's new ...

A group of researchers were out for a swim in San Diego recently when they encountered an oarfish, an "incredibly rare" creature whose appearance is an omen of impending disaster. Specifically, ...

A drawing published in Harper’s Magazine circa 1875 depicts Florida Keys wreckers at work. FLORIDA KEYS HISTORY CENTER/Contributed In the early 1980s, sparked by a passionate love for my island home, ...

For decades in the 19th and even early 20th centuries, sea serpent sightings were commonplace. Most famously, the crew of HMS Daedalus supposedly watched one for more than 20 minutes in 1848. Not long ...

The deep sea is a magical and mysterious realm that harbors some of the largest and most fascinating creatures on our planet. Beyond the reach of sunlight, the deep ocean remains one of Earth’s final ...