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Artists take inspiration from many sources. For the San people of South Africa, the spark that inspired some of their rock paintings may have come from fossils of creatures that went extinct more than ...

Marvelous mythical mermaid. Weather drawing by Zoie Norgard of Mrs. Meyer’s third-grade class at Harrison Elementary School. (Click in the image to see the entire drawing.) ...

The Loch Ness Monster — real or fiction? (Photo by Sam Forencich/Corbis. Design by Erik Mace for Yahoo Travel.) Even small children know that monsters are something you run away from. Yet, there are ...

"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 ...

Milton Bradley Elementary School fifth grader, Cameron Chapman, excitedly flipped the switch on his project. His mythological creature, a kitsune, lit up and moved. “I picked this one because it ...