A digital reconstruction of a humpback whale trap feeding, a behavior with striking similarities to the feeding habits of the "hafgufa" described in medieval Norse texts. John McCarthy ...

The ancient Norse sagas are filled with mythical creatures, but some of these sea monsters may have been whales displaying behaviours that have modern-day scientists mystified. Scientists have ...

A sea creature mentioned in 13th-century Old Norse manuscripts ... food to lure more prey into their stationary jaws. So why did modern scientists only recently find out about it?

That giant creature, called the hafgufa, was rumored to lurk below the frigid Icelandic waters. “The Norse description of ... that predate modern science.” “We found that the more ...

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This new species is named Jormungandr walhallaensis after a sea serpent in Norse mythology named Jörmungandr ... lizards or snakes or another living creature entirely. This new specimen fills ...

Researchers said they had discovered a new line of mosasaur, a giant sea-dwelling creature that lived alongside the dinosaurs. Its name, Jormungandr walhallaensis, draws on Norse mythology.

A sea creature mentioned in 13th-century Old Norse manuscripts, which historians thought was a kraken-like mythological monster, is actually a whale using a hunting strategy known as trap or tread ...