Spanish photographer Ángel Hidalgo captured a rare sighting of a white Iberian lynx, which marks the first time a human sees one in the wild. The video, showing the ghostly lynx moving gracefully ...

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 ...

History has been made in Spain after a 'mythical' animal was spotted for the first time. An all-white Iberian lynx, a leucistic Iberian lynx, was spotted ...

Before microscopes and satellites, the unknown world was a canvas for myth. When ancient explorers discovered fossils, ...

Among the most popular books of the time, bestiaries were filled with real and mythical animals and their lore, the ...

Some of the wildest legends may actually be rooted in reality. Ancient people didn’t have science textbooks, just bones in the dirt and stories passed around the fire, and sometimes, those stories ...

In a world containing over 1000 fictional creatures, there’s no way that designers could avoid using real animals as their inspiration. Some are very obvious to spot – Growlithe is a dog, Vulpix is a ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Some people are so fascinated with mythical creatures that they create their own, ...