They did not call the animal a bunyip, but described the remains indicating the creature as very much like a hippopotamus or manatee.

After the Linnaean Society's misidentification was discovered, it was frequently cited by debunkers as evidence that the creature did not exist.

It did not mean there actually was a creature lurking in the water, it was just their way of indicating they were troubled by some incident or event.

Frankenstein Drag Queens From Planet 13 a band from North Carolina who were fronted by now Murderdolls lead singer and solo artist Wednesday 13 also did a song about the creature naming it Creature From The Black Lagoon.

The heavy metal band Iced Earth also did a song about the creature called Dragon's Child on the Horror Show album.

A creature of habit, Haig took the same route to SHAPE every day – a pattern of behavior that did not go unnoticed by terrorist groups.

The Askafroa was thought be a malicious creature which did much damage, and to propriate her it was necessary to make a sacrifice to her on Ash Wednesday.

Such a creature could very well have killed and eaten humans, Haast's Eagles did not become extinct until several hundred years after the arrival of the Māori.

He is sometimes confused with Ammit, another underworld creature who ate the hearts of dead who did not pass the scales of Ma ' at.

Companies such as The Henson Company ( which became the premiere creature builders in the 80's ) did not yet take outside assignments, so Lemorande contacted friends at Walt Disney Imagineering for advice.

Despite standing only about a foot tall, the creature could carry a load of rye in his mouth for the people with whom he lived and did so daily as long as he received a meal of biscuits and milk.

Lightning was required to kill this creature, and it was Alexander's storm brew spell that did the deed.

Someone who accepts — as I myself do, taking it on trust — the present-day scientific account of the Universe may find it impossible to believe that a living creature, once dead, can come to life again ; but, if he did entertain this belief, he would be thinking more ' scientifically ' if he thought in the Christian terms of a psychosomatic resurrection than if he thought in the shamanistic terms of a disembodied spirit.

A creature of habit, Haig took the same route to SHAPE every day – a pattern of behavior that did not go unnoticed by terrorist groups.

She explained that as a creature of the ocean, when the sirens of the sea called her each morning, she could not survive if she did not go to them.

The observers did not see any sign of the creature.

For six years, Indiana State did not have a mascot, until 1995, a blue-and-white " furry woodland creature " named " Sycamore Sam " was developed to replace Chief Quabachi and continues to serve as Indiana State's mascot.

He did not know to what animal the bones belonged but, in 1818, after the Napoleonic Wars, the French comparative anatomist Georges Cuvier visited Buckland in Oxford and realised that the bones belonged to a giant lizard-like creature.

So they pushed for the exact types of shows that Cannell did not want, shows that involved Ralph trying to stop some sort of calamity from happening, including nuclear war (" Operation Spoilsport ") and even a Loch Ness Monster-type of creature (" The Devil in the Deep Blue Sea ").

According to Mark Hall, the Epitaph did indeed print a story about the capture of a large, unusual winged creature, on April 26, 1890.

It was also the case that Lord St. Vincent did not like Popham, and that Benjamin Tucker ( 1762 – 1829 ), secretary to the admiralty, who had been the admiral's secretary, was his creature and sycophant.

The resulting creature lives for centuries: indeed, the eldest of, the Ancients, recall a time when the meaty nuisances of elves and men, orcs and dwarfs, did not trouble and pollute ( and, worst of all, cut down ) the forest.

In 2004, he expressed great disappointment when director Paul W. S. Anderson did not come to him for the creature effects for Alien vs.

He had a hard time classifying them as they did not resemble any living creature.

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.

From the lioness' point of view, this strange creature on the back of another creature, lashing out with its long thin paw, very likely appeared as something she could not at first cope with.

In his 2001 book, writer Robert Holden identified at least nine regional variations for the creature known as the bunyip across Aboriginal Australia.

In Scottish Mythology a similar creature is known as the Bean nighe or ban nigheachain ( little washerwoman ) or nigheag na h-àth ( little washer at the ford ).

:" The Beaver is an amphibious creature: by day it lives hidden in rivers, but at night it roams the land, feeding itself with anything that it can find.

The sea creature found on the beach at the end of La Dolce Vita ( 1960 ) has its basis in a giant fish marooned on a Rimini beach during a storm in 1934.

In August 1933 a motorcyclist named Arthur Grant claimed to have nearly hit the creature while approaching Abriachan on the north-eastern shore, at about 1 a. m. on a moonlit night.

This image appeared to show a creature with a long tail and thick body at the surface of the loch.

This creature is corporeal, can understand human speech, and shares the same soul as its master, leading to legends which have many characteristics typical of shapeshifter tales, such as any death or injury affecting both forms at once.

The madness that is a side effect of Venom takes hold, and during the ensuing fight with Superman and Batman, Luthor admits he had traded the creature Doomsday to Darkseid in return for weapons during the Our Worlds at War crisis ; in doing so, he inadvertently provides a confession which is captured on video by Batman.

As Luthor becomes one with the creature, Superman and Mr. Mind who has been aiding Luthor's search realise that the creature allows Luthor to create a feeling of peace and bliss throughout the entire universe, at the cost of never allowing him to cause any harm to another being at the same time.

" Another of Hagenbeck's sources, Hans Schomburgk, asserted that while at Lake Bangweulu, he noted a lack of hippopotami ; his native guides informed him of a large hippo-killing creature that lived in Lake Bangweulu ; however, as noted below, Schomburgk thought that native testimony was sometimes unreliable.

The creature is said to live in the caves that have been washed out by the river in the clay of its shores at sharp bends.

Still, in the book Protector ( 1973 ), the Martians are brutally exterminated by a large water asteroid deliberately hurled at the planet, raising the water content in the atmosphere to a degree deadly to them, by Jack Brennan, a human who had turned into a Pak Protector — a creature completely devoted to protecting its descendants, or sometimes his entire species, and is unreasonably xenophobic towards anybody else.

Patterson estimated he was about away from the creature at his closest.

" If filmed at the higher speed, Grieve concluded that the creature " walked with a gait pattern very similar in most respects to a man walking at high speed.

He was the naïve butt of practical jokes and amorous scheming ( Gautier ); the prankish but innocent waif ( Banville, Verlaine, Willette ); the narcissistic dreamer clutching at the moon, which could symbolize many things, from spiritual perfection to death ( Giraud, Laforgue, Willette, Dowson ); the frail, neurasthenic, often doom-ridden soul ( Richepin, Beardsley ); the clumsy, though ardent, lover, who wins Columbine's heart, or murders her in frustration ( Margueritte ); the cynical and misogynous dandy, sometimes dressed in black ( Huysmans / Hennique, Laforgue ); the Christ-like victim of the martyrdom that is Art ( Giraud, Willette, Ensor ); the androgynous and unholy creature of corruption ( Richepin, Wedekind ); the madcap master of chaos ( the Hanlon-Lees ); the purveyor of hearty and wholesome fun ( the English pier Pierrots )— and various combinations of these.

It was on this Quest of Erebor that Gandalf found his sword, Glamdring, in a troll's treasure hoard, and that Bilbo found the One Ring, in a chance meeting with the creature Gollum ( though at the time it was thought to be a lesser ring ).

Sometimes the term describes any magical creature, including goblins or gnomes: at other times, the term only describes a specific type of more ethereal creature.