BREAKING: Massive Unknown Humanoid Species Discovered in Ancient Shipwreck Off the Coast of Antikythera, Greece
ANTIKYTHERA, GREECE — In what is being hailed as the most baffling archaeological find of the century, a team of marine archaeologists has unearthed a biological anomaly that threatens to rewrite the history of evolution.
On the morning of November 24, 2025, a joint expedition led by the Hellenic Ministry of Culture and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution descended to a previously unexplored depth near the famous Antikythera shipwreck site. They were searching for bronze artifacts similar to the legendary Antikythera Mechanism. Instead, they found a grave.
Dr. Elias Thorne, the lead diver on the expedition, described the moment the team entered the rotting hull of what appears to be a Roman-era cargo ship.
“We expected amphorae, perhaps marble statuary,” Thorne reported in a press briefing in Athens earlier today. “But as our lights cut through the gloom of the cargo hold, we saw a ribcage. It was colossal. At first, I thought it was a whale trapped in the wreckage. Then I saw the skull.”
The image released by the expedition team shows a scene of haunting beauty and terror. Resting on the wooden beams of the ship is a skeletal structure measuring approximately 15 feet in length. The upper torso resembles that of a human, though scaled up to gigantic proportions, while the lower spine extends into a long, serpentine tail, lacking the pelvic structure of a bipedal human.
“The anatomy is impossible,” says Dr. Elena Karras, a paleobiologist brought in to consult on the find. “The skull possesses human dentition and cranial structure, yet the ribcage is expanded for deep-sea lung capacity, and the spinal column suggests an aquatic, undulatory form of locomotion. It is the mythical ‘Siren’ or ‘Merfolk’ made bone and calcium.”
The location of the find adds a layer of historical mystique. The waters off Antikythera have long been treacherous, known in antiquity as a place where ships vanished. Carbon dating of the wood surrounding the skeleton suggests the ship sank around 70 BC. This raises a terrifying question: Was this creature a passenger, a captive being transported to Rome for the gladiatorial games, or something that attacked the ship and died trapped within it?
The Greek government has currently declared a 5-mile exclusion zone around the dive site. As samples of the bone marrow are being rushed to laboratories in Zurich for DNA sequencing, the world waits with bated breath.
“We went down looking for history,” Dr. Thorne said, his voice trembling. “We came back up with a myth.”