In mythology and ancient literature throughout Greece, Europe and Asia, unicorns were depicted as powerful and fierce animals. Their description varies by region and time-period, but unicorns typically galloped around on cloven hooves, while flicking away flies with a lion’s tail. Some...

While out at sea, sailors would occasionally come across a creature in the water that resembled a rather large women.  It was usually just a manatee (a.k.a sea-cow or dugong) swimming underneath the water, but it might have been a mermaid for all we know. It may also have been wishful...