Across the world, humans have told stories of creatures so strange and powerful they blur the line between myth and reality. Some may be echoes of ancient animals long extinct, while others reflect ...

From the Loch Ness monster to Bigfoot, also known as Sasquatch, to the jackalope of the U.S. West, mythical animals have long captured human imagination. Some people are so fascinated with mythical ...

Despite emerging from an oral storytelling tradition, the Odyssey is consistently held up as one of the most significant stories in human history. When BBC Culture surveyed writers and literature ...