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The name of order Pholidota comes from Ancient Greek ϕολιδωτός – "clad in scales" [20] from φολίς pholís "scale". [21] The name "pangolin" comes from the Malay word pengguling meaning "one who rolls up" [22] from guling or giling "to roll"; it was used for the Sunda pangolin (Manis javanica). [23] However, the modern name is ...
Orthrus – two headed dog, father/brother of Cerberus (Greek) Penghou – tree spirit that appears like a black dog and tastes like dog-meat (Chinese) Psoglav - (Bosnia) humanoid monster with dog's head, horse's legs, one eye and iron teeth. Salawa – the "Typhonian Animal," a slender, vaguely canine-animal that is the totemic animal of Set
The Indian pangolin (Manis crassicaudata), also called thick-tailed pangolin and scaly anteater, is a pangolin native to the Indian subcontinent. [2] Like other pangolins, it has large, overlapping scales on its body which act as armour. The colour of its scales varies depending on the colour of the earth in its surroundings.
Strongylocentrotus purpuratus, a well-armoured sea urchin. Armour is evident in numerous animal species from both current and prehistoric times. Dinosaurs such as Ankylosaurus, as well as other Thyreophora (armoured dinosaurs such as Ankylosauria and Stegosauria), grew thick plate-like armour on their bodies as well as offensive armour appendages such as the thagomizer or a tail club.
Humped back and a long neck and tail. It has grayish-brown skin with a yellow underbelly, a dog-like head, and a body anywhere between 10 and 42 feet (3-13 m) in length. [56] 1635– Lake Tahoe California Nevada USA: North America: Tahoe Tessie: Large, serpent-like creature. [57] Rivers, Lakes, and Caves throughout New Zealand [58] New Zealand ...
In the mountains of Ecuador lurked a scaly creature with a white “collar” around its neck. For years, the distinctive animal had managed to go unnoticed or, when occasionally spotted ...
Heracles is on the left, wearing his lion-skin, fighting a three-bodied Geryon to the right. An Attic black-figure neck amphora, by the Swing Painter c. 550–500 BC (Cab. Med. 223), shows a two-headed Orthrus, at the feet of a three-bodied Geryon, with two arrows protruding through one of his heads, and a dog tail. [13]
They are distinguished by two rows of pointed, raised scales on the undersides of their tails. [3] The anatomy of their heads is quite different from that of the sciurid flying squirrels . By extending their limbs, anomalures transform themselves into a gliding platform that they control by manipulating the membranes and tail. [ 4 ]