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Marine monsters can take many forms, including sea dragons, sea serpents, or tentacled beasts. They can be slimy and scaly and are often pictured threatening ships or spouting jets of water. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Sea monsters .
Sea monster accounts are found in virtually all cultures that have contact with the sea. For example, Avienius relates of Carthaginian explorer Himilco's voyage "...there monsters of the deep, and beasts swim amid the slow and sluggishly crawling
Questing Beast – Beast with the head and neck of a snake, the body of a leopard, the haunches of a lion, and the feet of a hart. Sea-lion; Serpopard – Lion/leopard body with a snake head. Sharabha – part Lion, part bird-beast, with eight legs.
Legendary creatures of the Argentine Northwest region; List of creatures in Meitei folklore; List of Greek mythological creatures; List of legendary creatures from China
Kholomodumo – Gluttonous monster that was one of the first beasts of creation; Kijimunaa – Tree sprite from Okinawa; Kijo – She-devil; Kikimora – Female house spirit; Killmoulis (English and Scottish) – Ugly, mischievous mill spirit; Kinnara – Human-bird hybrid; Kin-u – Bird
The Grootslang is described as being 40–50 feet (12–15 m) in length, and to leave a track 3 feet (0.91 m) wide. [2] [5] Some legends describe it as having diamonds in its eye sockets.
Giant animal (Worldwide) – Unusually large beasts; Gichi-anami'e-bizhiw – Bison-snake-bird-cougar hybrid water spirit; Gidim – Ghost; Gigantes – Race of giants that fought the Olympian gods, sometimes depicted with snake-legs; Gigelorum – Smallest animal; Girtablilu – Human-scorpion hybrid
A bestiary (Latin: bestiarium vocabulum) is a compendium of beasts. Originating in the ancient world, bestiaries were made popular in the Middle Ages in illustrated volumes that described various animals and even rocks. The natural history and illustration of each beast was usually