The article "Land creatures of the earth" is a very interesting article about the mythical creatures called giants. This article says that ancient Greek people found giant bones that looked like human bones, so they thought that there were giants. Modern science now proves that these are woolly mammoths. I thought this was very interesting how modern science can now disprove century old theories.
Mermaids are considered a mythical creature from ancient stories, but are claimed to be real from many sightings from sailors in the 1500s, 1600s, and 1700s. This article explains that modern science claims that these sailors must have just seen a manatee and thought is was a mermaid. Another theory is that mermaids were just female breath holding divers. They are from China, Japan and Korea. They scavenge at the bottom of the sea for clams, and fish. They were wiped out in China and Korea because when Confucianism come to their governments wives were supposed to submit to their husbands, so they were banned from working. So this theory is that these woman divers were thought to be mermaids.
