The Creature from the Black Lagoon is a classic Universal horror movie from the fifties golden era of cinema. Yet where others have had reboot after reboot, this one character has remained quiet. Last ...

The Universal Classic Monsters were the horror icons of the Golden Age of Hollywood, and the Gill-man would be the last to join their ranks as moviegoers faced different scares in the 1950s and beyond ...

The toxic bite of a Gila monster can kill a human, but a specific ingredient in the cocktail of the lizard's venom is the reason we have glucagon-like peptide (GLP-1) agonists like Ozempic and Wegovy.

Turns out, the lion is kind of a fraud. This ultimate symbol of Venetian power and identity wasn’t forged in Venice, nor is ...

Part of a continuing weekly series on Alaska history by local historian David Reamer. Have a question about Anchorage or Alaska history or an idea for a future article? Go to the form at the bottom of ...

The Godzillafranchise has produced a ton of imitators, but one cheesy monster movie from Korea is actually much better than most. After the giant irradiated lizard first stomped onto the screen in ...

King Kong, Bride of Frankenstein, and The Thing are among the greatest, most iconic and important monster movies from the last 100 years of cinema.

If you happened upon this bizarre creature in the ocean, you could be forgiven for thinking someone had flung a chicken carcass into the sea and it was bobbing along on the current — hence its ...

What follows are the best giant monsters from movies that aren’t, well, King Kong or Godzilla. We avoided monsters from movies that aren’t specifically monster movies, with apologies to the sandworms ...