The fossil record is filled with strange marine animals that would look like sea monsters if they were alive ... so be sure to keep up with the latest Live Science fossil news.

A brand new species of elasmosaur named Traskasaura sandrae has been identified from three specimens found on Vancouver Island.

In Slavic tradition, there is a terrifying sea monster known as the Bukavac. It is rumored to live in lakes and rivers, ...

Redditors had many guesses on the identity of the sea monster with some comparing it to a plesiosaur (the same species as the mythical Loch Ness monster) while one user joked it was an “otter ...

You can get in touch with Robyn by emailing r.white@newsweek.com A gigantic sea monster from the era of ... and is said to live in a sea encircling Earth. Mosasaur were first discovered over ...

The finding, detailed in this week's issue of the journal Science, is the first proof that plesiosaurs were viviparous—that they gave birth to live young ... "New 'Sea Monster' Species Identified.") ...

DARIN JOHNSON: He met up with two of his fisherman friends who he coaxed into going to the newspaper and telling the newspaper that there was a sea monster spotted out in the water. HERWICK ...

It would be easy to imagine the cartographer invented them on the spot,” says Chet Van Duzer, cartographic historian and author of Sea Monsters on Medieval and Renaissance Maps. Magnus’s map ...