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.

Cats are among those things I just can’t draw convincingly. Them and dogs. And horses. And people. Okay, I can draw things convincingly as long as they aren’t realistic.

Anyway! This is the dreaded Wild Cat of Craig-na-Seanean and a little friend. Found near Doo-Lough, this ferocious feline had a moon-shaped marking on its forehead and a sharp nail on the end of its tail. It killed and ate hundreds of people until it was slain by three heroic brothers who impaled it on their spears. The cat was then hacked to particles and burnt to ashes to prevent the potential spread of plague.

ABC al-Qazwini pop quiz! What on earth is this whalewolf-looking animal?