Join Oliver Crimmen, Senior Curator of Fish, and Jon Ablett, Senior Curator of Mollusca, as they explore the real-life inspiration behind fantastic sea monsters of yore that are lurking in the ...

We landlubbers have got it all wrong: kraken aren’t terrible monsters from the sea who destroy our sailing ships and munch on our sailors. They’re kind and helpful. It’s the mermaids who are ...

The Kraken is a gigantic, fearsome beast that lives in the ocean’s deepest recesses and is a mythical sea monster rooted in ...

Hundreds of years ago, our understanding of the sea was even more limited. Sailors came across many strange creatures, which inspired the myths of sea monsters we know today. Let’s explore some ...

Explore the real-life inspirations behind legendary creatures like mermaids, Kraken, Pouakai, dragons, unicorns, and Roc.

The giant squid is a rare and elusive creature, once thought only to exist in stories of sea monsters called krakens. But in 2004, the Museum was offered a nearly complete specimen caught at a depth ...