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unusual facts about Creature



2-Headed Shark Attack

The original design of the shark had one shark head stacked on top the other, but creature designer Cleve Hall pushed to change the design to side-by-side heads.

Alice in Murderland

Someone who was not invited goes as the Jabberwocky a (fierce creature from the book) and brings mayhem to the girls' night as he starts murdering them one by one while the party is taking place.

Alien Investigations

Investigators examine the Metepec creature found in the Mexican town of Metepec, the Montauk Monster found washed up in Long Island, New York, a mummy with an elongated head found by an anthropologist in the Peruvian Andes and a pale, snub-nosed creature seen by four teenage Panamanian boys.

All-Con

Guests included Battlestar Galactica actor Aaron Douglas, Return of the Jedi actors Tim Dry, Sean Crawford, and Mike Edmonds, plus Blazing Saddles actor Burton Gilliam and Who Wants to be a Superhero? contestant Tonya Kay (aka Creature).

Altruism

Thirteenth-century Turkish Sufi poet Yunus Emre explained this philosophy as "Yaratılanı severiz, Yaratandan ötürü" or We love the creature, because of The Creator. For many Muslims, i'thar must be practiced as a religious obligation during specific Islamic holidays.

Baudolino

These creatures and many others were all described and named by Pliny the Elder in his Naturalis Historiæ from 77 AD: A monopod and a satyr (top); a blemmyae and a panotti (above).

Beast of Bladenboro

The Beast of Bladenboro refers to the creature responsible for a string of deaths amongst Bladenboro, North Carolina animals in the winter of 1953-54.

Body Blows Galactic

Dragon is a massive green creature using his brute strength to win the competition, while Dino is a Velociraptor-like creature with a small green rider on his back.

Bud Westmore

For his involvement in Creature from the Black Lagoon he assisted the designer of the Gill-man, Disney animator Millicent Patrick, though her role was deliberately downplayed and for half a century, Westmore would receive sole credit for the creature's conception.

Budoy Marabiles

Billed by the show as the "M-16 of Samar", he is best known as the vocalist of the Cebu-based reggae band Junior Kilat, which is responsible for songs such as Original Sigbin (In Bisaya mythology, Sigbin is a mythical creature), K Fyne (Okay, Fine) and Ako si M-16 (I am M-16), which bagged the Best Song in the 2005 NU Rock awards sponsored by the Manila-based rock radio station NU 107.

Cat repeller

Cats Protection describe the use of electric fences as "barbaric" on their website due to the physical harming of a cat or any other creature that comes into contact with an electric fence.

Dwayyo

Several University of Maryland students wrote that they had investigated the origin of the unknown creature and had traced its ancestry to the Dway which according to the researchers the Dway is an animal which inhabited the left bank of the upper Amazon River and the Yo which apparently immigrated from the Yangtze River plateau via the glacier bridge which connected Alaska and China.

Edwin James Milliken

His creation of 'Arry, a bombastic Cockney, resulted in a successful series of poems which were hailed for their phonetic precision. Milliken described 'Arry as "really appalling. He is not a creature to be laughed at or with."

Effigia

In a January 30, 2006 episode of The Colbert Report, Stephen Colbert satirically touted the fossil as disproving the "Darwinlutionists" ("who try to claim that every kind of creature had evolved from monkeys").

ELBO Kentaurus

The vehicle takes its name from the Greek word for Centaur the creature from Greek mythology.

Elizabeth Kahanu Kalanianaʻole

In Jack London and Hawaii by Charmian London, Princess Elizabeth is described as:... a gorgeous creature that eclipsed the handsome look of her husband Kuhio.

Genesis flood narrative

In 1646, Sir Thomas Browne wondered why the natives of North America had taken rattlesnakes with them, but not horses: "How America abounded with Beasts of prey and noxious Animals, yet contained not in that necessary Creature, a Horse, is very strange".

Go Stewie Go

The new characters include parodies of the Sesame Street characters Big Bird, who describes himself as a "big bird," and a self-described "grouch" named "Moody Green Garbage Creature", who resembles Oscar the Grouch, and butch and femme versions of Bert and Ernie, who try to protect Karina and Julie from Oscar.

Jan Savery

It is widely believed that Lewis Carroll (who was also an Oxford mathematician) was inspired by Savery's image of the dodo hanging at Oxford to include the creature as a character in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.

John Bindernagel

He also claims to have heard the creature near Comox Lake in 1992, comparing its whooping sound to that of a chimpanzee.

King Ghidorah


In the last episode of Muteking, The Dashing Warrior, the three Kurodako Brothers are transformed into a single creature similar to King Ghidorah.

Kumi Lizard

The most recent reports both come from 1898, one describing a large reptile seen near Gisbourne, the other a huge creature akin to a monitor lizard which threatened a bushman in Arowhana before retreating into a Rata tree.

Lake Tianchi Monster

It was claimed that a large buffalo-like creature attacked three people, but was shot six times.

Northanger Horrid Novels

:“Dear creature! how much I am obliged to you; and when you have finished Udolpho, we will read The Italian together; and I have made out a list of ten or twelve more of the same kind for you.”

Olaf Breuning

Sibylle (1998)-- Photograph of a female model lying on a table, whose body has been affected by cultural references to Matthew Barney, Cindy Sherman, Pablo Picasso, and others, resulting a creepily mutilated creature.

Paleodictyon nodosum

Adolf Seilacher who discovered the original fossils of Paleodictyon nodosum hypothesizes that the creature is a worm-like species that burrows into the sediment around hydrothermal vents and deflects water flow through the burrows to catch food or farm its own food.

Paradise and the Peri

The peri, a creature from Persian mythology, is the focus of the story, having been expelled from Paradise and trying to regain entrance by giving the gift that is most dear to heaven.

Phylliidae

The scholar Antonio Pigafetta may have been the first to document the creature.

Polkan

Polkan or Palkan (Russian: Полка́н or Палкан, from the Italian Pulicane) is a half-human, half-horse (in some variants, half-dog) creature from Russian folktales which possesses enormous power and speed.

Procedural surface

Another example of a procedural surface is a Blob as illustrated in movies like The Abyss in the scene where the creature made up of water reaches out and touches the character.

Propalaeotherium

Propalaeotherium was featured in Walking With Beasts, where it is shown as a skittish foraging creature that is a prey item of Gastornis and Ambulocetus

Protoceratops

Folklorist and historian of science Adrienne Mayor of Stanford University has suggested that the exquisitely preserved fossil skeletons of Protoceratops and other beaked dinosaurs, found by ancient Scythian nomads who mined gold in the Tian Shan and Altai Mountains of Central Asia, may have been at the root of the image of the mythical creature known as the griffin.

Raystown Lake

A photo of this particular creature was featured on the Syfy program, Fact or Faked: Paranormal Files.

Richard Preston, 1st Earl of Desmond

The title was created for the second time for James Fitzgerald – a pathetic creature of the Crown who died penniless and without issue.

Scansoriopteryx

Because the only known specimens are juvenile, the size of a full-grown Scansoriopteryx is unknown–the type specimen is a tiny, sparrow-sized creature.

Simon Kurt Unsworth

Creature Feature (with Guy N. Smith and William Meikle), Ghostwriter Publications, 2009.

Snakehead Terror

Swarm of the Snakehead is an independently produced creature comedy based on the same Crofton incident, and the only one of the three actually filmed in Maryland.

Solarbabies

Joe Kane, the "Phantom of the Movies", was even less kind: "A pathetic Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome rip-off, working from a script which must have been scrawled in Crayola, with every futuristic cliche you could possibly imagine. Lacking in originality, but rich in brain-dead dialogue; when Jami Gertz snarls, 'Get out, you creature of filth!', consider that a subliminal message."

Solenodon

The Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust and the Ornithological Society of Hispaniola were able to take measurements and DNA from the creature before it was released.

Spiny

Spiny (Mario), a fictional four-legged creature in Super Mario Bros, often thrown by Lakitus

State Temple of the Martial God

Looking up above the entrance, you can see carving of a number of animals, including elephants, dragons, and the mythical Chinese flying creature the “Qi-Lin”(麒麟), which has a head like a dragon, and the body of a winged horse.

The Creature of Black Water Lake

The Creature of Black Water Lake is the thirteenth novel in World of Adventure series by Gary Paulsen.

The Planet of Doubt

Burlingame decides that the creature is similar to the larval Thaumetopoeidae, which forms processions when it travels from its nest.

The Runestone

A young boy named Jacob (Chris Young) is haunted by terrifying nightmares of what is to come, and his grandfather (William Hickey) explains these dreams through stories from Norse legend, which says that the only one who can destroy Fenrir is Týr, the Norse god of single combat, victory and heroic glory, who is prophesied to return to fight the creature.

The Terrible Dogfish

In the anime manga series MÄR, Pinocchio's Guardian ARM Fastico Galleon is a giant whale-like creature based on Monstro from the Disney movie.

Varmint of Burke's Garden

To aid in the creature's capture, the board of supervisors of Tazewell County contacted Clell and Dale Lee, two of the best-known big-game hunters then active in the United States; their dogs were well known for being able to track most kinds of animals.

Wah Chang

In addition, Chang built the artificial creature in "The Architects of Fear" episode of the original The Outer Limits, some props for the original Planet of the Apes film, the frightening skeleton animated in The Power, the flying machine in The Master of the World, and the dinosaurs in Land of the Lost.

Wanderlust Circus

Wanderlust Circus, under the direction of founders Noah Mickens and Nick "the Creature" Habar, is known for showcasing circus, music, and specialty acts, usually with an accompanying original storyline.

Warhammer Fantasy Battle

The first edition, written by Bryan Ansell, Richard Halliwell, Graham Eckel and Rick Priestley was published in 1983 and consists of a boxed set of 3 black and white books illustrated by Tony Ackland: Vol 1: Tabletop Battles, which contains the core rules, turn sequence, creature lists, potion recipes and features an introductory battle 'The Ziggurat of Doom'.


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