Roy P. Mackal, a University of Chicago scientist, fruitlessly pursued the creature for decades. One of his long-lost ...

Roy P. Mackal — the controversial and colorful University of Chicago scientist whose study of monsters caught the attention ...

The narwhal, giant sturgeon and giant squid also make the list of creatures once thought to be mythical, but are all-too real. Cryptozoology, or the study of cryptids, is a pseudoscience that ...

And depending in your interest in local legends and cryptozoology (the study of hidden animals), you may have heard of some of the other mythical creatures that are occasionally said to haunt ...