"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Ever since we started telling stories, mythical creatures have fascinated and terrified humans with their ...

Back in the day, as far back as Pliny the Elder, it was widely accepted that mythical creatures such as unicorns roamed the Earth. And while these beings have firmly been labeled as “not real” (for ...

When the animal kingdom met the artistic imagination, the result was a whole zoo full of fantastical creatures from dragons to unicorns, phoenixes to sphinxes. These strange mythological beasts haven ...