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This page lists many-eyed beings in mythology and fiction. The list is meant to include creatures that have multiple eyes on body or on head (or heads); for creatures who have multiple eyes due to having multiple heads, each having two eyes, see polycephaly in mythology .
Pages in category "Mythical many-headed creatures" The following 33 pages are in this category, out of 33 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
Two-headed animals (called bicephalic or dicephalic) and three-headed (tricephalic) animals are the only type of multi-headed creatures seen in the real world, and form by the same process as conjoined twins from monozygotic twin embryos. [2] In humans, there are two forms of twinning that can lead to two heads being supported by a single torso ...
Argus Panoptes is referenced in the scientific names of at least eight animals, each of which bears a pattern of eye spots: reptiles Cnemaspis argus, Eremias argus, Sibon argus, Sphaerodactylus argus, and the Argus monitor Varanus panoptes; [16] [17] the pheasant Argusianus argus; the fish Cephalopholis argus and the cowry Arestorides argus.
→ 8-eyed creature — with personality like 'Satan' — discovered. → 'Ghost'-like creature with 'ample' genitalia found at power plant. → 'Cryptic' 3-foot-long creature found in mangroves ...
‘Large’-eyed mountain creature found hiding in stream in China. It’s a new species. Rare sea creature — with ‘crown’ ‘of light’ — found on Oman reef. It’s a new species
From 8-eyed spiders to a new species resembling a “miniature dragon.”
Buraq – A creature from Arabic iconography that has the head of a man and the body of a winged horse. Capelobo - A creature from Brazilian folklore with the head of an anteater, the torso of a human, and the legs of a goat. Chalkydri – Creatures with twelve angel wings, the body of a lion, and the head of a crocodile mentioned in 2 Enoch [16]