"When I was a child, out fishing in Scotland, we caught giant dinosaur prawns in our tangle nets, and none of the adults could identify what these extraordinary creatures were. This made a deep ...

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Turns out the ancient Greeks weren't just making things up! Join us as we count down our picks for the ancient Greek myths ...

"It's hard to say exactly where myths end and folk tales and religions begin. I like to think that myths are ways of making sense of the world: the people in them don't change (unless they are ...

Also known as the Grey Sisters, the Graeae are a trio of wizened sisters who share a single tooth and eye between the three of them. Daughters of Ceto and Phorcys, a pair of primordial sea deities, ...