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The Peridexion Tree. 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 accompanied by a moral lesson.
The Ashmole Bestiary, an English illuminated manuscript bestiary, is from the late 12th or early 13th century. Under 90 such manuscripts survive and they were studied and categorized into families by M.R. James in 1928. [1] The Ashmole Bestiary is part of the Second-family of manuscript Latin bestiaries, wherein it is one of forty eight.
Gargantua. A fossil species of hoofed mammal from the Paleocene of Patagonia, Argentina, "Named after the literary character in François Rabelais' sixteenth century story of two eccentric giants, Gargantua and Pantagruel. In allusion to the larger size of this species compared to [its relative] Etayoa bacatensis."
List of fictional marsupials (kangaroos, wallabies, koalas, opossums, bandicoots, Tasmanian devils) List of fictional primates (lemurs, monkeys, chimpanzees, gorillas, orangutans, humans) Lists of characters in a fictional work (mostly people) List of fictional rabbits and hares. List of fictional rodents (mice, rats, beavers, squirrels ...
Anthropomorphic cat guarding geese, Egypt, c. 1120 BCE. Fable is a literary genre defined as a succinct fictional story, in prose or verse, that features animals, legendary creatures, plants, inanimate objects, or forces of nature that are anthropomorphized, and that illustrates or leads to a particular moral lesson (a "moral"), which may at the end be added explicitly as a concise maxim or ...
Several stories within the One Thousand and One Nights (Arabian Nights, 8th–10th centuries CE) also feature science fiction elements.One example is "The Adventures of Bulukiya", where the protagonist Bulukiya's quest for the herb of immortality leads him to explore the seas, journey to the Garden of Eden and to Jahannam (Islamic hell), and travel across the cosmos to different worlds much ...
Boris Karloff in James Whale's 1931 film Frankenstein, based on Mary Shelley's 1818 novel.The monster is created by an unorthodox biology experiment.. Biology appears in fiction, especially but not only in science fiction, both in the shape of real aspects of the science, used as themes or plot devices, and in the form of fictional elements, whether fictional extensions or applications of ...
Talking animals are a common element in mythology and folk tales, children's literature, and modern comic books and animated cartoons. Fictional talking animals often are anthropomorphic, possessing human-like qualities (such as bipedal walking, wearing clothes, and living in houses). Whether they are realistic animals or fantastical ones ...