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Domestic cat with complete heterochromia, also referred to as an odd-eyed cat. Eye color, specifically the color of the irises, is determined primarily by the concentration and distribution of melanin. Although the processes determining eye color are not fully understood, it is known that inherited eye color is determined by multiple genes ...
Aswang – Shapeshifting Philippine human eating ghouls, vampires and demons. Bak – Assamese aqueous creature that can take human form after killing them. Dokkaebi – A mythical being in Korean folklore or fairy tales. Although usually frightening, it could also represent a humorous, grotesque-looking ogre or goblin.
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Hitotsume-nyūdō could pass for really tall human priests if not for the large, single eye in the center of their faces. Kasa-obake, one-eyed sentient umbrella yokai of Japanese folklore; Shirime; Yamawaro; Jian, a bird in Chinese mythology with only one eye and one wing. A pair of such birds were dependent on each other and inseparable.
She prayed to Artemis, and Artemis transformed her into a mare. In other versions, the transformation was a punishment over some insult of Melanippe against Artemis. Melanippe's child, Arne, was born a foal as a result, but later in life acquired a human form. In the end Melanippe was transferred to the stars. Melian nymphs: Frogs: Zeus
Here are three of our most eye-catching archaeology stories from the past week. → Roman helmet looked like a 'rusty bucket' when it was found in UK. Now, it's restored
A rare predominantly black cat with odd eyes. The odd-eyed colouring is caused when either the epistatic (recessive) white gene or dominant white (which masks any other colour genes and turns a cat completely solid white) [3] or the white spotting gene (which is the gene responsible for bicolour coats) [4] prevents melanin granules from reaching one eye during development, resulting in a cat ...
A humanoid (/ ˈ h juː m ən ɔɪ d /; from English human and -oid "resembling") is a non-human entity with human form or characteristics. By the 20th century, the term came to describe fossils which were morphologically similar, but not identical, to those of the human skeleton. [1]