Some animals have inspired mythical creatures ... From the goblin shark to a tiny wasp named after a creature in Harry Potter, discover the animals that take their names from folklore or fiction. The ...

Mythical birds are born from human imagination, often rooted in folklore, legends, and religious traditions. It was believed that the phoenix lived for several centuries. The legendary bird ...

NEW ORLEANS (WGNO) — Over the generations, many young children in Louisiana have heard of the mythical Rougarou ... the Rougarou is a creature of Cajun folklore that’s described as having ...

Veles is sometimes seen as the mythical antagonist of Perun, part of a structural pattern that may reflect a more ancient Indo-European myth of a primordial ... it must be derived from Iranian ...

These scaly, mythical creatures appear in ... The archetypal European dragon hails from the north. A Germanic creature that flies by flapping its leathery wings, the dragon possesses a fearsome ...