Visit lovely Bohemia! Get scalded by a beast with a bladder on its neck!
From Le Livre des Merveilles.
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Visit scenic India! See the elephants, rhinos, and crocodiles!
From Le Livre des Merveilles.
Flat Worms by M C Escher (1959)
“Birth of a Salesman”, Kelly Freas illustration for the eponymous J. Tiptree Jr. short.
There’s something incredibly unsettling about Gustave Doré’s Bluebeard. Those eyes…
That’s an awfully friendly sea serpent
A friend.
From Rasmussen, K (1929) Intellectual Culture of the Iglulik Eskimos.
Gustave Doré’s The Monkey and the Dolphin, from back when dolphins were pretty much mythical beasts. In this case, it’s less a dolphin and more a genetically discombobulated piscoPekingese. The monkey’s cute though.
The dreaded Tailypo, while endowed with a delicious and highly nutritious tail, is also extremely possessive of its caudal appendage.
A Book of Creatures 