Lovecraft's novel The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath, a winged creature called " the Shantak-bird " is described as having " the head of a horse ", also as " big as an elephant " with " scales instead of feathers ".

" Allgame editor Jason White commented that its " spiked feathers and a needle-like beak make this creature something you probably don't want to pet.

Birds had by then already evolved from early forms like Archaeopteryx, the first creature to possess feathers.

Once her father provides these, on the night of the wedding she takes the gowns and goes into hiding, disguising herself as a creature of fur and feathers known as Straggle Tag.

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 ...

Thirty years prior, " Brother Bainbridge " claimed to have sighted a creature that looked like a dolphin in the lake near Antelope Island.

The creature was described as wearing " what looked like a really nasty torn fur coat.

Using his Master Computer, Shrike used Rondu's life-force to create a creature called a Titan ( which looked like a Japanese Oni ), to battle Mighty Orbots.

" He recalls that " uperheroes crept into my life by stealth ," as he actively sought out covers featuring " any big creature that looked vaguely dinosaur-like, trampling puny humans.

His boy had faded into dust, his proud wife had sunk into a polluted creature, his flatterer and friend had been transformed into the worst of villains, his riches had melted away, the very walls that sheltered him looked on him as a stranger ; she alone had turned the same, mild gentle look upon him always.

King asked that the werewolf be ambiguous, plain, and hard to see, in contrast to the hulking monsters seen in other werewolf films and books in the early-to-mid-1980s, with the end result being a creature which looked more like a bear than anything else and did not really have any identifying characteristics.

This incarnation was the first level boss, and looked different from his comic incarnation: looking more like a bald-headed, vampire-like creature rather than the green-skinned zombie of the comics.

" Pokeymon " looked like a spike-covered giraffe creature.

When the mouse turned around, bit the hand of its captor and escaped, he pointed this out to those present and said, " When the tiniest creature defends itself like this against aggressors, what ought men to do, do you reckon?

Beside each " living creature " is a " wheel within a wheel ," with " tall and awesome " rims full of eyes all around.

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.

He hid in a closet with a sword and waited until seeing a fiendish cat-like creature stalk around his niece's bedroom and bite her on the neck.

Kinnaras, another half-man half-horse mythical creature from the Indian mythology, appeared in various ancient texts, arts as well as sculptures from all around India.

The creature is said to either swim alongside boats or sail around them in a partially submerged vessel, always on their own.

Godzilla, arguably the most well known of the Daikaiju, has played the roles of hero, villain, and force of nature in the course of his existence, one of the few kaiju of any type to be depicted in multiple roles and having those around him react in different ways, depending on how the creature itself was being presented in the films.

While lingering around the wormhole's event horizon, an alien creature caught on to the Chronosphere and followed it back to Earth.

", a horn-headed creature, and a conjoined cat and dog hybrid creature spinning around like a tornado.

He is also depicted as a large creature with snake-like hair, a vulture's hooked-nose, large tusks like a boar, heavy brow ridges, large lips, fiery eyes, pointed ears a black beard, enormous wings, discolored ( pale cream, bluish or greyish ) skin, and snakes around his arm.

* Skenfrith ( performed by Dave Goelz ) — Skenfrith is a magical creature whose appearance and personality are altered depending on what those around him believe or imagine.

*: By focusing energy from his left hand into a spiral energy beam around his right arm, then directing the energy at a target creature, Ultraman can induce a temporal stasis, in effect paralyzing the target.

In that film, Khan Noonien Singh uses a creature that wraps itself around Chekov's cerebral cortex to control him and his captain.

An intern briefly saw a figure standing on OCD's rooftop, wearing a labcoat with stethoscope around his neck, holding the head of " some black hairy creature " in his hand.

These cards are granted by operating special wall-sized computer terminals ; since these terminals are also placed behind the color coded doors, sometimes it is possible to lure an alien into opening such doors and, after dispatching the creature, quickly move in to get the access without having to wander around in search for another terminal.

Some have done away with the showing aspect and created a great fantasy or comedic website, based around a nonexistent discipline or creature.

During the same year the merchants around Camden offered a $ 10, 000 reward for the capture of the Jersey Devil, even offering to build a private zoo to house the creature if captured.

* In 2008, the History Channel program MonsterQuest filmed an episode in and around the Pine Barrens of New Jersey, centered on several recent sightings of the mythical creature, and positing the notion that the creature could very well be a great horned owl or other known predator bird.

Recently Skelmorlie has been in the news as reports of a rogue creature known as ' the skelmorlie panther ' have been sighted in and around the area.

The Yuggoth is described as being known as " a creature, a planet, and an idea " and is an abstract alter-dimensional entity which is entering through the hole in the fabric of time that the story revolves around.

The figure on Altar 4 is sitting inside what appears to be a cave or the mouth of a fantastic creature, holding a rope which wraps around the base of the altar to his right and left.

One of the major rides is Nemesis, an inverted roller coaster, based around the fictional tale of a giant, ancient, malevolent, alien creature which is now incorporated into the new ride: Nemesis: Sub-Terra.

The Loch Ness Phenomena Investigation Bureau ( LNPIB ) was a UK-based society formed in 1962 by Norman Collins, R. S. R. Fitter, David James, MP, Peter Scott and Constance Whyte " to study Loch Ness to identify the creature known as the Loch Ness Monster or determine the causes of reports of it.

A bartender named David Munro claims to have witnessed a wake he believed was a creature zigzagging, diving, and reappearing.

The hairy creature appeared in Addams cartoons as " It ", but was named " Cousin Itt " by the show's producer, David Levy.

Laura is a creature of the supernatural, an immortal Phoenix who almost succeeds in taking David with her as she is consumed by flames.

On the Cartoon Network animated television series The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy, David provided the voice of Nergal, a demonic creature from the Earth's core.

In December 2003, David Hart claimed to have found a pickled dragon or, more precisely, what appeared to be the fetus of a winged reptile-type creature preserved in a tall jar of formaldehyde in his garage in Sutton Courtenay, Oxfordshire ; he then showed it to a friend, Allistair Mitchell, who runs a marketing company in Oxford.

Pey ' j ( voiced by David Gasman ), a boar-like creature, is Jade's " uncle " and guardian figure.

As a joke David wanted to name their unborn child " Nessie " after the local Scottish creature the Loch Ness Monster.

A similar argument is made by David Nichols, author of The Bogan Delusion ( 2011 ), who says that people have " created this creature that is a lesser human being to express their interclass hatred ".

In the TV series, Dr. David Banner, a widowed physician and scientist, who is presumed dead, travels across America under assumed names ( his false surnames always begin with the letter “ B ”), and finds himself in positions where he helps others in need despite his terrible secret: in times of extreme anger, he transforms into a huge, incredibly strong green creature, who has been given the name " The Hulk ”.

" A murder which David Banner can never prove he or the creature didn't commit.

David reveals his true identity to her, and both agree to help each other, using a tissue sample from the creature to possibly cure Carolyn of her illness.

In the two-part episode " The First ", David discovers that another man transformed into a Hulk-like creature 30 years ago.

As David awakens and attempts to stop him, Frye is bombarded with gamma radiation, which turns him into a Hulk-like creature.

* The Torchwood short story " Mrs Acres " by David Llewellyn ( appearing in the Torchwood Magazine 2009 yearbook ) featured the character of Colin Acres, a shapeshifting alien which alternated between human form and that of a large, cat-like creature.

Durock also played a Hulk-like creature on the television series The Incredible Hulk, two part episode titled " The First ", where it was revealed that David Banner was not the first man to become a creature ; another scientist accidentally created one " about thirty years ago " while similarly seeking a way to use radiation to increase strength.

David Langford's 1988 parody collection The Dragonhiker's Guide to Battlefield Covenant at Dune's Edge: Odyssey Two contains a parody of " The Gateway of the Monster ", in which the creature manifests not as a human hand, but as another body part entirely.