Some even depict it as a horned, dragon-like creature with a serpent-headed tail and small, round ears, while others have both " necks " of equal size so that it cannot be determined which is the rear head.

It is supposedly a heavy creature, the size of a small bear, with a row of spines reaching from the neck to the base of the tail.

She described the long necked creature as living in the rivers, and being about the size of a hippo, if not somewhat larger.

Drawing a bath to try and scrub some of the chemical residue from his horribly scarred flesh, Melvin begins his transformation into a hideously deformed creature of superhuman size and strength.

The title was a mix of traditional superhero storytelling and satire, including the phrase " hideously deformed creature of superhuman size and strength " being repeated many times, and Toxie's " Tromatons " erupting when he was in danger similar to Spider-Man's spider-sense.

Most characters resemble their previous counterparts in costume and powers, with the most notable exceptions including Chameleon Boy, now called simply Chameleon and depicted as an androgynous creature, Star Boy, who in this version of the Legion is black, Colossal Boy, who is now a giant who shrinks to human size, and Phantom Girl, who exists in two universes at once and has conversations with people in her own dimension while talking to Legionnaires at the same time.

Harryhausen then returned to Columbia and Charles Schneer to make 20 Million Miles to Earth ( 1957 ), about an American spaceship returning from Venus that crashes into the ocean near Italy, releasing an on-board alien egg specimen which washes up on shore and soon hatches a creature that, in Earth's atmosphere, rapidly grows to gigantic size and terrifies Rome.

At the start of each week ( each day in Heroes IV ), creature dwellings produce new recruits, and in most cases neutral armies will increase in size ( by default ; can be turned off if desired ).

Another version tells that two Sioux boys wandered far from their village when Mato the bear, a huge creature that had claws the size of teepee poles, spotted them, and wanted to eat them for breakfast.

There is a possible confusion between the mapinguari with another type of reported cryptid, the Lobo-Toro or Capelobo, literally the Bull-Wearing-the-Skin-of-a-Wolf, thought to be a description of the groundsloth as a creature the size of a bull but with the coarse pelt and long thick tail of a wolf.

The other form of duck decoy, otherwise known as a hunting decoy or wildfowl decoy, is a life – size model of the creature.

According to GoGriffs. com, the griffin is a " mythical creature of supposed gigantic size that has the head, forelegs and wings of an eagle and the hindquarters, tail and ears of a lion.

About 2 inches long, this fast-moving creature has the largest jaw size to body ratio of any creature.

The creature was flying at at least 500 feet and cast a shadow the same size as a small passenger airplane.

* A large polyp-like creature of the genus Pseudocorynactis was observed attacking, and then wholly ingesting a crown-of-thorns starfish of similar size.

In an episode titled " Colossus ", Apache Chief shouts " Eh-neeek-chock " to grow to super size, making himself able to battle the Colossus, a titanic space creature that plucked Earth from its orbit and placed it in a small ( relative to him ) glass bottle.

He was then able to grow to 1 / 5 the size of the earth, with one foot the size of the entire eastern United States and defeated the creature, sending it back inside the moon.

A gigantic, feral, ape-like creature who was previously a human postal worker from Covington, Indiana, nicknamed " Mammoth " due to his large size.

Prepubescent children's dæmons can change form voluntarily, almost instantly, to become any creature, real or imagined, although there is an upper limit to the physical size they can attain.

About the size of a raccoon or domestic cat, this herbivorous creature shared some of the traits of whales, most notably the involucrum, a bone growth pattern which is the diagnostic characteristic of any cetacean, and is not found in any other species.

* Cockatrice: Named after a legendary creature that is part rooster part lizard, but the size of a dragon, Cockatrice is Hatoko ( Dark Pigeon )'s personal Avatar.

Martin and his coauthors concluded that the skull was probably microcephalic, arguing that the brain is far too small to be a separate dwarf species ; if it were, the 400-cubic-centimeter brain would indicate a creature only one foot in height, one-third the size of the discovered skeleton.

Once covertly looking at Simms Purdew, the only man in the world whom he hated, he had seen the heavy, slack, bestubbled jaw open and close to emit the cruel, obscene banter, and had seen the pale-blue eyes go watery with whisky and merriment, and suddenly he was not seeing the face of that vile creature.

Until a few weeks ago, however, Arnold Palmer was some god-like creature who had nothing in common with the duffers.

In English-language works, it is sometimes said that Arians believe that Jesus is or was a " creature ", in the sense of " created being ".

Author Jerome Clark argues that the Jacko Affair, involving an 1884 newspaper report of an apelike creature captured in British Columbia, was a hoax.

" Buckley also claimed the creature was common in the Barwon River and cites an example he heard of an Aboriginal woman being killed by one.

The term was first coined by August Derleth, a contemporary correspondent of Lovecraft, who used the name of the creature Cthulhu — a central figure in Lovecraft literature and the focus of Lovecraft's famous short story The Call of Cthulhu ( first published in pulp magazine Weird Tales in 1928 )— to identify the system of lore employed by Lovecraft and his literary successors.

A new research by Benjamin Radford concluded that the description given by the original eyewitness in Puerto Rico, Madelyne Tolentino, was based on the creature Sil in the science-fiction horror film Species.

The alien creature Sil is nearly identical to Tolentino ’ s chupacabra eyewitness account and she had seen the movie before her report: " It was a creature that looked like the chupacabra, with spines on its back and all ...

In July 2004, a rancher near San Antonio, Texas, killed a hairless dog-like creature, which was attacking his livestock.

Photographs were taken and witness reports seem to be in relative agreement that the creature was canine in appearance, but in widely published photos seemed unlike any dog or wolf in the area.

Most occurrences in ancient literature revolve around the basis of the threat of Cerberus being overcome to allow a living being access to the underworld ; in the Aeneid Cerberus was lulled to sleep after being tricked into eating drugged honeycakes and Orpheus put the creature to sleep with his music.

The resting place of the draugr was a tomb that served much as a workable home for the creature.

Its extinction was not immediately noticed, and some considered it to be a mythical creature.

Since there was no longer the countervailing power of the papacy and since the Church of England was a creature of the state and had become subservient to it, this meant that there was nothing to regulate the powers of the king, and he became an absolute power.

Thus, for example, the funerary god Anubis was portrayed as a jackal, a creature whose scavenging habits threatened the preservation of the body, in an effort to counter this threat and employ it for protection.

A Polish Kabbalist, writing in about 1630 – 1650, reported the creation of a golem by Rabbi Eliyahu thus: " And I have heard, in a certain and explicit way, from several respectable persons that one man close to our time, whose name is R. Eliyahu, the master of the name, who made a creature out of matter Golem and form tzurah and it performed hard work for him, for a long period, and the name of emet was hanging upon his neck, until he finally removed it for a certain reason, the name from his neck and it turned to dust.

Henry Saperstein ( whose company UPA co-produced the 1965 film Frankenstein Conquers the World and the 1966 film War of the Gargantuas with Toho ) was so impressed with the octopus sequence that he requested the creature to appear in these two productions.

Perhaps it was named by settlers who thought " it was a creature from hell where it ’ s bent on returning ".

His candidate for the creature was the great white shark as it has, in some circumstances, been found containing whole men.

The term " monster " was reportedly applied for the first time to the creature on 2 May 1933 by Alex Campbell, the water bailiff for Loch Ness and a part-time journalist, in a report in the Inverness Courier.

On 6 December 1933 the first purported photograph of the monster, taken by Hugh Gray, was published in the Daily Express, and shortly after the creature received official notice when the Secretary of State for Scotland ordered the police to prevent any attacks on it.