In a shallow roadside pond in India's Western Ghats, researchers found a new species of "fairy shrimp" named Streptocephalus warliae. This ethereal creature, known for its upside-down swimming, was ...

About 300 miles off the coast of Tokyo, researchers aboard a deep-sea submersible sank below the surface of the water.

According to Japanese folklore, the Kappa is a monstrous creature that inhabits lakes and rivers. Occasionally, though, the demon will leave its watery lair and challenge humans to single combat.

The tsuchinoko, a creature resembling a fat snake that you wouldn’t want to anger, is the star of a new film that uses the mythical animal to explore how Japan has changed since the mid-20th ...

Yokai (Japanese spirits) and mythical creatures of Japanese lore have inspired artists, writers and poets for millennia. However, as the Japanese culture has changed, so have depictions of the ...

A statue of a kappa, Japan’s most elusive mythical creature, sits near Kappabuchi Pool in Tono, a city in Iwate prefecture. (Aaron Kidd/Stars and Stripes) ...

Yokai are supernatural entities from traditional Japanese folklore, popularised in modern culture by movies and series like GeGeGe no Kitaro, My Neighbour Totoro and Spirited Away.

"Stop the infection from spreading!" The words appear to come straight from the beak of a creature with a bird's head, human hair and a fish's scaly body, in a recent public service announcement from ...