Fossil from weird, predatory water monster found in Iowa. This rendering provided by Yale University shows a Pentecopterus decorahensis. Earth?s first big predatory monster was a weird water bug, ...

For most of human history, monsters were repugnant aberrations, breaches of the natural and moral order. What’s behind our ...

Biologists at Yale have discovered a previously unknown species of enormous "sea scorpion" that predates others like it by some 9 million years. Pentecopterus decorahensis was part of a group called ...

Tracks made 330 million years ago by a 1.6 meter-long (5 ft 3 inches) water scorpion have been discovered in Scotland. In a report in the journal Nature, University of Sheffield geologist Martin Whyte ...

Like so many cop shows, some scenes in the hit television series CSI are devoted to a lowly maggot. This doesn't always describe the criminal suspect. It also describes a helpful friend, the common ...