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In mythological images, one usually sees sea serpents striking from turbulent oceans to wrest a fleeing sailing ship into the murky depths. So the 100-foot serpent rising from a dry pond bed in Golden ...

For decades in the 19th and even early 20th centuries, sea serpent sightings were commonplace. Most famously, the crew of HMS Daedalus supposedly watched one for more than 20 minutes in 1848. Not long ...

What do you do when a mysterious sea serpent is prowling warm Gulf waters? You catch it, chop it up and make it into soup. That's the lesson learned in a segment in Nashville writer Allen Sircy's new ...

Under just a sliver of a moon Monday night in San Francisco, an overflow crowd turned the JFK Promenade into the Playa on the Pavement for the ceremonial lighting of a giant Burning Man sea serpent ...