The principal unit available to the Tyranids was the Zoat, a centaur-like creature enslaved to fight on the behalf of their Tyranid masters.

The first centaur-like object to be discovered was 944 Hidalgo in 1920.

Instead, it has adopted the following naming convention for such objects: befitting their centaur-like transitional orbits between TNOs and comets, " objects on unstable, non-resonant, giant-planet-crossing orbits with semimajor axes greater than Neptune's " are to be named for other hybrid and shape-shifting mythical creatures.

Comet 38P / Stephan-Oterma | 38P exhibits centaur-like behavior by making close approaches to Jupiter, Saturn, and Uranus between 1982 and 2067.

By the year 2200, comet 78P / Gehrels will probably migrate outwards into a centaur-like orbit.

Driders are centaur-like creatures in the game, appearing as drow from the waist up, with their lower portions replaced by the abdomen and legs of immense spiders.

The remaining companions encounter the Titanides, strange centaur-like beings who speak a language based on music.

Lynels are centaur-like monsters featured in The Legend of Zelda, A Link to the Past, Oracle of Ages and Oracle of Seasons.

A few races survive on the carnage the Blood War produces ; the armanites, centaur-like tanar ' ri, must constantly battle with other creatures because otherwise they will turn on one another ; the molydei are another race of demons who prowl the Abyss, searching for deserters or rogue demons, whom they press-gang into fighting.

The Pegasus Megazord is another MegaZord that can be formed through a combination of the Wild Zords, and the first ever centaur-like MegaZord formation.

Venus is inhabited by other savage creatures, some which resemble prehistoric beasts, such as the centaur-like Gorillalion.

* N-dam-keno-wet-a half-fish, half-human creature with a small face and long hair, molests bathing women

The game's theme incorporated anthropomorphism, where the player has the ability to transform into a half-human, half-animal creature known as a Zoanthrope ( The name came from the clinical term, ' zoanthropy ', which is similar to that of lycanthropy, but not just with the mind-set of a wolf ).

Although the creature is clearly not human in description, it is at least half-human by birth, which accounts for its cannibalism.

The story describes a young man's discovery of a strange hybrid race, half-human and half an unknown creature that resembles a cross between a fish and a frog, that dwell in Innsmouth – a coastal town that had seen better days – and the waters offshore.

* Mound ( creature ), a half-plant, half-human creature in the paintings and writings of artist Trenton Doyle Hancock

* Harpy, a half-human half-bird mythological creature from the Greek mythology that resembles the Kinnara

Alien Bodies subtly suggests that it is just the Eighth Doctor who is half-human, while other books ( such as Unnatural History and The Gallifrey Chronicles ) suggest that the Doctor's human mother is a Victorian Lady called Penelope Gate, and his Time Lord father is called Ulysses.

These fallen take human wives and produced half-angel, half-human offspring called the Nephilim.

Goro is part of the four-armed half-human, half-dragon race, called the Shokan.

Like Goro and Kintaro, she is a species of a half-human and half-dragon in the Mortal Kombat universe called the Shokan.

Two other Time Lord-like beings appeared in the episode " Journey's End ": Donna Noble, briefly empowered with the mind and knowledge of a Time Lord, and a half-human clone of the Doctor.

Carnes appeared in two episodes of the British Science-fiction drama Doctor Who: " Daleks in Manhattan " and " Evolution of the Daleks " in which he played Laszlo, who was turned into a half-human, half-pig slave.

This half-human and half-animal composition has led many writers to treat them as liminal beings, caught between the two natures, embodied in contrasted myths, both as the embodiment of untamed nature, as in their battle with the Lapiths, or conversely as teachers, like Chiron.

Rare human representations include handprints and half-human / animal figures.

Merlin's Mirror, by Andre Norton, tells the story of the half-human, half-alien Merlin.

She is portrayed as a half-human half-Klingon born in 2349 on the Federation colony Kessik IV.

The official Star Trek: Voyager Companion describes B ' Elanna as a young half-human half-Klingon in her twenties who is a member of the Maquis Rebellion.

After her escape from the Vidiians the Klingon Torres suffered a fatal wound from the Vidiian energy weapon and died, but the Doctor used her DNA to restore the human Torres to her original half-human half-Klingon state.

B ' Elanna Torres, a half-human / half-Klingon Maquis, becomes chief engineer.

Rare human representations include handprints and half-human / half-animal figures.

Unlike Genesis, where only human beings created in the image of God are given a soul, animals and half-human half-animal creatures such as Fauns and Satyrs and even trees and watercourses are given souls and the power of rational thought and speech.

In the TOS episode " This Side of Paradise ", Leila Kalomi hints at having had a special relationship with Spock some six years earlier, though Spock's remark that he hoped his half-human blood would see him " spared " the agony of pon farr in the episode Amok Time suggests that their relationship was more casual.

As the half-Vulcan, half-human Spock — a role he chose instead of one on the soap opera Peyton Place — Nimoy became a star, and the press predicted that he would " have his choice of movies or television series.

Writer Samuel A. Peeples told Roddenberry these attributes made Spock too alien, and suggested " he should at least be half-human and have the problems of both sides ", believing the human traits made the character more interesting and able to comment on the human condition more believably.

Quinto expressed interest in the role because of the duality of Spock's half-human, half-Vulcan heritage, and how the character " is constantly exploring that notion of how to evolve in a responsible way and how to evolve in a respectful way.

Nick Griffiths of Radio Times named Frink one of the best characters of the show, stating that he has " always loved Professor Frink ", particularly because of his appearance, gibberish talking, and overuse of the word " the ", and because of his inventions such as the matter teleporter that turns Bart into half-human half-fly.

Producer William Alland was attending a dinner party during the filming of Citizen Kane ( in which he played the reporter Thompson ) in 1941 when Mexican cinematographer Gabriel Figueroa told him about the myth of a race of half-fish, half-human creatures in the Amazon river.

* Padôgiyik " Thunders "-seven white-skinned, golden-haired brothers, half-human and half-bird, former inhabitants of Lake Champlain, war-like, thunder and lightning spirits.

Statuettes representing the human form, half-human, half-hawk, or simply in its falcon form will be systematically placed in tombs to accompany and protect the dead on their journey to the West.

** The Regulator Guy: A series of expensive-looking promos for a Terminator-like action character aired on " Late Night " over a period of several months, with Elliott playing the super-cool half-human, half-mechanical " Regulator Guy ," even speaking with a bad Schwarzenegger-esque accent.

Nüwa and Fuxi represented as half-snake, half-human creatures.

Some drafts of the movie's screenplay, and Robbie Stamp's " making of " book covering the movie, state that Trillian was to be revealed as half-human, an acknowledged divergence from Douglas Adams ' original storyline.

An interview with actress Zooey Deschanel, included on the DVD version, has her mention that Trillian is half-human, suggesting the interview was recorded prior to the change of plan.

As the series progresses, some of the half-human species are discovered to have the potential to possess magical talents.