On occasion we advertise jobs for Hackaday but this time around is an exceptionally big deal. The Hackaday Prize was an amazing adventure this year, and we’re already hard at work on the plans for the ...

From ancient tales of Banshees and goblins to modern depictions of teenage vampires and werewolves on television and in movies, mythological creatures have always intrigued humankind. The best fairy ...

"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 ...

There are a number of amazing creatures in the depths of Earth’s oceans. Here are some of our favorites…. This shrimp vomits bioluminescent material onto a viperfish to distract it and escape. This ...

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 ...

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Charlotte Stephenson receives funding from the University of Hull. The release of Jurassic World has reignited our love for palaeontology. Many of us share a longing to understand the dinosaurs that ...

Journey to the West’s most well known character is arguably Sun Wukong, the monkey king who joins the monk on his pilgrimage to retrieve sacred buddhist texts in the Chinese novel. For English ...

Bryan Nelson is a science writer and award-winning documentary filmmaker with over a decade of experience covering technology, astronomy, medicine, animals, and more. One animal that may have inspired ...