Greek judicial authorities have jailed the captain and first officer of a yacht ahead of a trial on charges of arson over a forest fire on the island of Hydra believed to have been sparked by ...

Greek mythology features several dragons, but is there any evidence that these mythical monsters were based on real creatures?

The tiny, immortal hydra is a freshwater animal that can ... bodies — appropriate for an animal named for an ancient Greek monster that had somewhere between six and nine heads.

The animal in question is called hydra, like the Greek mythological water monster that has multiple heads, one of them immortal. Legend has it that the monster grows several new heads if one is ...