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Composite Creatures is a science fiction novel by English poet and novelist Caroline Hardaker. It is her debut novel and was first published in the United Kingdom in April 2021 by Angry Robot . It is set in the near future on an Earth-like world that has been damaged by climate change .
Sessile animals such as sponges are asymmetrical [13] alongside coral colonies (with the exception of the individual polyps that exhibit radial symmetry); Alpheidae claws that lack pincers; and some copepods, polyopisthocotyleans, and monogeneans which parasitize by attachment or residency within the gill chamber of their fish hosts).
Each creature from Shen's original set of bone sculptures bears the title of "Unknown Creature No. __". [ citation needed ] To create each creature, Shen collected the bones from a variety of animals, mixed them together to give them autonomy from the original creature, and then reconstructed a new skeleton that bore no resemblance to the ...
Snaiad is an exoplanet slightly larger than Earth located outside of the Milky Way. [1] The planet is home to a large variety of fauna, which Kösemen has designed and meticulously documented, along with creating maps and a geopolitical story of Snaiad as it undergoes the process of human colonization about 300 years in the future, [1] [2] Snaiad being one of Earth's first interstellar colonies.
Parthenope – name meaning "maiden-voiced", Daughter of Achelous and Terpsichore; Pisinoe – daughter of Achelous and either Melpomene or Sterope; Thelxinoë – name meaning "mind charming" Swan maiden (Multi-cultural) – shapeshifts from human to swan; Caladrius – white bird with healing powers; Chalkydri – heavenly creatures of the Sun
The thick-maned (and long-bearded) manticore wearing a Phrygian cap is a commonplace design (fig., top left). [27] In most instances, the manticora is "coloured red or brown and has clawed feet". [28] Artists took the liberty of coloring the manticore blue at times. [29] One example is depicted "as a long-haired blond" (fig., top right). [31]
Animated skeletons in The Dance of Death (1493), a woodcut by Michael Wolgemut, from the Liber chronicarum by Hartmann Schedel.. A skeleton is a type of physically manifested undead often found in fantasy, gothic, and horror fiction, as well as mythology, folklore, and various kinds of art.
The first known description of the bonnacon comes from Pliny the Elder's Naturalis Historia: . There are reports of a wild animal in Paeonia called the bonasus, which has the mane of a horse, but in all other respects resembles a bull; its horns are curved back in such a manner as to be of no use for fighting, and it is said that because of this it saves itself by running away, meanwhile ...