Notes

SELDOM-SEEN OR OBSCURE SPECIES

Here it is! My list of species (singular or lower taxon), breeds and/or variants of not-so-seldom seen species that I find unique, seldom-seen in Media or just overall be a cool choice for OCs :)

The creatures at the top most of each category are the ones I personally find well known but would still add intrigue if featured in certain media regardless :)

NOTE: Also includes color variations or mutations of not-so seldom seen species. Top most creatures of each category are creatures more well known but nevertheless would add intrigue if featured in media.

* MODERN

- Markhor
- Colugo
- Binturong
- Cacomistle
- Red river hog
- African Civet
- Asian Palm Civet

- European storm petrel (the smallest seabird)
- Family Dipodidae (Jerboas)
- African grass owl
- Lesser sooty owl
- Silkie Chicken
- Beautiful Chicken Breeds
- Call Duck
- Button Quail
- Hookbill duck
- Muscovy Duck
- Magpie Goose
- Screamers ( Anhimidae )
- Osprey ( this fish hawk is a fish eater that can fly with a large fish held vertically to its torso for streamlining)
- White cougar
- White jaguar
- White leopard
- White lion
- Melanistic Asiatic Lion (dark brown with nearly black patches, kinda like a dark Abyssinian)
- Aquatic Genet
- Black necked swan
- New World porcupines (tree and North American porcupines)
- Margay ( Leopardus genus, smaller than ocelot, larger eyes, shorter face, longer legs and tail, spends entire life in trees, can climb down head first due to rotatable ankles, females have only two tests and has unusual mating calls)
- Kodkod (Leopardus genus, smallest cat in America’s, small head, large feet, thick tail, sometimes melanistic, terrestrial but a good climber)
- Laotian Flying Squirrel
- Gerbils, Sand rat’s and Jiirds
- Kea
- Pouched rats, climbing mice, Malagasy Mice, white tailed mice
- Martens of the Martes Genus
- Yellow-throated marten - A vicious pack-hunting sound east and eastern marten species
- Monitor Lizards
- African Golden Cat
- Olive thrush - an African robin
Unbelievale Wild Duck Species
- King Eider - An arctic Duck
- Thick-billed murre - The largest of the Auk and an even more convincing imposter for a flying penguin if it stood up straight.
- Rakali (An otterlike Australian water rat)
- The Hydromys (cousins of the Rakali)
- Yellow Sea Snake (Hydrophis spiralis) - Largest sea snake lives ore-shore
- Otter civet (Cynogale bennettii) is a semiaquatic civet native to Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia and Brunei.
- Lesser mouse-deer (Tragulus Kanchil) - the world’s smallest ungulate
- Water chevrotain - The largest of the mouse deer and also the only African Chevrotain
- Bobook owl - An Australian Owl
- Moonrats and gymnure (ratlike relatives of hedgehogs)
- Fiordland penguin - A New Zealand penguin that are known to wander into jungles.
- African pygmy squirrel - The smallest squirrel, endemic to Cameroon. Size of a mouse
- Prevost's squirrel - A colorful squirrel
- Indian Giant Squirrel - A Large technicolored Squirrel
- Lykoi Cat - A US cat breed that looks like a Hollywood werewolf!!
- Red Giant Flying Squirrel - One of the 14 species in Borneo, including the tail it’s four feet long. Prolly the largest of them all.
- The Japanese giant flying squirrel (ムササビ musasabi, Petaurista leucogenys) - 2 ft from top of the head to the tail tip
- Bhutan giant flying squirrel - A South East Asian flying squirrel that’s among the enlarges. Dunno the exact size
- Golden-rumpled elephant shrew - Largest of it’s kind. Dwells in Northern coastal areas of Africa. Builds several nests to avoid danger and really knows how to distract predators for the neck with the Booty 😏
- Mindoro stripe-faced fruit bat - A fruit bat with unique facial coloring
- Painted bat (Kerivoula picta) - A Pretty Orange and Black Asian bat
- Perodicticinae - African lorises
- Splendid Fairy-wren - A beautiful Aussie bird that looks like a very very blue, blue jay - And other Aussie birds https://www.natureaustralia.org.au/explore/australian-animals/our-top-10-favourite-aussie-birds/
- Ichthyomyini - A tribe of New World, carnivorous, semi-aquatic rats and mice
- Ouessant Sheep - The smallest breed of sheep. Barely reaches your knees
- Japanese Dwarf Flying Squirrel - A little,cutie from Japan
- Japanese Giant Flying Squirrel - A much larger grey, black and white cousin.
- Valais Blacknose - Said to be the cutest sheep breed in the world
- Pygmy Goat (smallest meat breed),
- Nigerian Dwarf Goat (smallest dairy breed),
- Pygora Goat (smallest fiber breed)
- Damascus goat - A very bizarre and grotesque goat breed that develops that look as they get older
- Great potoo and other Nyctibiidae barking, camouflaged Muppet birds - The great potoo itself is about 2ft long, making t the largest of the family.
- Blakiston's fish owl - A large river fishing owl from Central Asia and Japan
- Serama Chicken - Also called the Malaysian Serama. The smallest chicken breed in the world
- Jersey Giant - The largest chicken and also one of the heaviest
- Phylliroe - A Nudibranch sea slug that looks and swims like a fish
- Brown greater galago - The largest of the galagos. It can actually climb, walk and run rather than leap
* Northern Luzon giant cloud rat - A very large rat from the Philippines with vaguely Siamese cat marking
* Water anole, Anolis aquaticus, is a species of Anole, a lizard in the family Dactyloidae, native to Costa Rica and Central America. The species demonstrates adaptations that allows it to spend periods of time underwater up to approximately a quarter of an hour, forming an air bubble which clings to its head and serves to recycle the animal's air supply while it spends time beneath the surface.[1]
* Marsh Mongoose - A semi aquatic african mongoose
* Paucidentomys - Also known as a Shrew rat. A genus consisting of a worm-eating rat with only two teeth (no molars) discovered in a remote rainforest on the island of Sulawesi, Indonesia.
* Sulawesian shrew rat
* Sommer's Sulawesi rat
* Long-tailed shrew rat
* Tate's shrew rat
* Mount Data shrew-rat
* Echiothrix
* American rabbit - A domestic rabbit breed that has a very very blue color variation amongst it’s variants.
* Asian Koel - ( ဥဩ ) A species of cuckoo with the males having a distinctive black coat, and a trademark call. Both sexes have red eyes.
* White Bellbird - A bird with a single rattail-like wattle that can produce the loudest bird call
* Kori Bustard - A bizarre Australian bird that sounds like a dinosaur
* Pygmy and Dwarf sperm whale - much smaller and rarer cousins of the iconic sperm whale.
* Borzoi- A breed of greyhound-like long haired dog that looks like a mythical creature, the Monster Hunter Palamute or a Bloodborne boss creature.
* Teddy Bear Crabs - A species of small crabs covered in hair like growths that make it look furry and cuddly
* Bornean Tufted Ground Squirrel - The real life Count Batula! A squirrel that, by rumors and reports, kills deer by jumping on them from low branches, bite them on the jugular veins and then after bleeding to death, and eats they’re internal organs. Also kills and eats chickens the same way. Due to this, it has been nicknamed the “vampire squirrel”
* Great Bustard- A grey, brown, black and white bird that can make extravagant displays as well as a booming call…although one of it’s calls sounds like Peter Griffin saying “aaaah”
* Hokkaido long-tailed tit (or Shima Enaga) - A subspecies of long tailed tit. Very adorable. Looks like a white chick wearing the dismembered wings and tail of a flying bird.
* Greater Glider - One of the largest glider animals, and also extremely adorable. Looks like mix between a sugar glider, aye aye and Binturong. Kinda reminds me of Momo from Avatar the Last Airbender.
* Tufted Squirrel - Big headed, brown tree squirrel with white tufted ears and a body so small it is a reallife Chibi
* Apodidae (Swifts) - Many of them look pretty unique as well as adorable
* Turtle Frog - A sentient chicken thigh from South America
* Rubber Boa - A small non-venomous snake from North America that when curled up, looks like a a pile of shit.
* Lancetfish - A fish species that looks like it came out of a realistic fantasy work’s building project
* Tibetan Blue Bear - Ears of a sloth bear, face and body of a brown bear and large white chest patch that wraps around the neck.


* EXTINCT ( search by † )

SOURCES

* https://www.deviantart.com/king-edmarka/gallery/45609324/paleoart
* https://www.deviantart.com/hodarinundu/gallery/all
* https://youtube.com/channel/UCDHZ0K1aH0OSVK85UqlpRmA
* https://youtube.com/c/TheExpeditionersDiscoveryGuild
* https://youtube.com/channel/UCOh5Ht3eB4914hMUfJkKa9g
* https://youtube.com/c/HenrythePaleoGuy
* https://youtube.com/c/BenGThomas
* https://www.deviantart.com/batterymaster/gallery/64286847/prehistory-and-things
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* https://www.deviantart.com/avancna/gallery

- Deinocheirus
- Dolichorhynchops
- Argentinosaurus
- Mononykus
- Archelon


- Pakicetus
- Ichthyolestes (close relative of pakicetus)
- Regisaurus (ratty mammal like reptile)
- Moschowhaitsia (badgerlike mammal like reptile)
- Vegaviidae (distantly related to ducks and geese)
- Castrocauda ( The Jurassic “Beaver”)
- Didelphodon (Large omnivorous Mesozoic marsupial otter)
- Vitana Sertichi ( Large Mammal Madagascan herbivore of the Late Cretaceous)
- Repenomamus ( A large 3 foot long mammal predator that weighs 25 pounds that is proven to be a dinosaur eater.
- Mesungulatids ( generally large sized herbivores or omnivores, being among the several Mesozoic mammals deviating from the classical insectivore stereotype. They are among the dominant mammals in Late Cretaceous south american assemblages, and among the most derived species present.)
- Giraffidae - Trust me, there are a lot of Bizarre looking cards there :D
- Potamotherium - A Otter-bodied primitive ancestor of pinnipeds
- Puijila-Another primitive pinniped that was even more otter like.
- Titanoides - A herbivorous swamp mammal of the pantodont genus that looks like a weird bear.
- European Ice Age Leopard
- Basilosauridae (besides Basilosaurus and Dorudon)
- Beezlebufo
- Paleopatadoxia (Large, almost fully marine afrothere with backhoe bucket shaped jaws and ate seaweed and sea grasses. Can swim and dive underwater but can’t descend into or live in the depths. Spends time floor walking like a marine hippo)
- Metatherians other than marsupials
- Anagaloidea
- Australosphenida (distant cousins to monotremes)
- Adapiscoridulidae (non placental Paleocene eutherians)
- Smok wawelski (theropod-like Late Triassic archosaur
- Steropodontidae and Kryorctes (Cretaceous platypus and Echidna)
- Dichobunidae ( Basal ungulates That May have resembled long tailed chevrotains and were rabbit sized)
- Rahonavis (a Flying birdlike theropod)
- Condylarth ( an order of extinct placental mammals, known primarily from the Paleocene and Eocene epochs. They are considered early, primitive ungulates.)
- Prionosuchus (the largest amphibian to have ever swam the earth. Looks like a crocodilian axolotl)
- Palaeoloxodon ( a giant elephant that has beaten the Paraceratherium as the largest land mammal ever)
- Lysorophia (order of aquatic Carboniferous and Permian tetrapods within the extinct subclass Lepospondyli. Lysorophians resembled small snakes, as their bodies are extremely elongate.)
- Eorhynchochelys ( A lizard-like stem turtle with a toothless beak and a wide and flat-ribbed body that had no shell. The skull also has a single pair of holes at the back. )
- Pachypleurosaurs (fully-aquatic lizard-like ,fish-eating, Triassic sauropterygian reptiles. They were long-bodied with small heads, long necks, peg-like front teeth are widely spaced, paddle-like limbs, long deep tails and were 7.874 inches to 3 feet 3.37 inches in length.)
- Mimotona (a genus of early insectivorous lagomorph that lived in Late Paleocene of China.)
- Mesosaurs ( Semi aquatic reptiles that resembles long limbed platypus lizards with heron like toothed jaws)
- Patriofelis (a cougar-sized otter-like oxyaenid that could swim and climb)
- Halszkaraptor escuilliei ( A duck-like, and sized semi-aquatic dromeosaur)
* Chamitataxus - A Miocene North American carnivorous badger genus. Though little is known of its size and other features, it is speculated that it may have a keen sense of smell, firm jaw grip, and the ability to hear far and low-frequency noises.
* Cyrnaonyx - A Pleistocene mostly-crustacean eating otter from Europe: France, Germany, Netherlands, Southern England and probably Italy. It spent more time swimming.
* Ekorus - A cursorial mustelid with a cheetah-like build
* Megalictis - A large bone-crushing Weasel that lived like a big cat
* Oligobunis
* Sthenictis
* Teruelictis
* Eomellivora - A giant, long limbed, almost fully carnivorous honey badger
* Ferinestrix - A giant badger, larger than today’s wolverines. And may be fearless enough to steal kills from sabertooth cats and other larger predators
* Plesiogulo - A Small-bear sized wolverine


- Ursavus - A Small bear with a tail,that is surprisingly not an amphicyonid
- Pantolestidae - semi-aquatic, like non eutherian mammals from the Late Cretaceous to the Oligocene
- Palaeophis colossaeus - A giant Cretaceous Sea Snake
- Deinogalerix - Giant spineless Italian hedgehog that looks like a possum or solenodon.
- Chapalmalania altaefrontis - (Cha-Palma-lania) A giant South American procyonid
- Icthyoconodon - An early Cretaceous gliding, fish-eating, slightly bat/pterosaur-like mammal that lived near the coast and foraged from the sea. Also kinda looks like Belfry from Tamberlane
Miracinonyx trumani - A speedy cheetah-like feline genus from North America
Miracinonyx inexpectatus - A more cougar like cousin
- Lurdusaurus - A semi-aquatic hadrosaur That May have lived like a hippo
- Palaeopleurosaurus - a small semi-aquatic Jurassic relative of the terrestrial tuatara
- Tanystropheidae - There are many more tanystropheus relatives in there
- Thylacinidae - There are some unique relatives there
- Thylacoleonidae - Thylacoleo relatives
- Microleo - A thylacoleonid that was the size of a ring tailed possum
- Leaellynasaura - the fuzzy, proto-feathered long tailed Aussie-Antarctic ornithopod
- Nemicolopterus - A sparrow sized pterosaur genus. Smallest pterosaur in the world
- Silvacola - A Shrew sized North American Hedgehog
- Anteosaurus - Largest predatory non mammal synapsid
- Acrophoca longirostris (swan-necked Seal) - a 5ft Long Late Miocene basal relative of the earless monk seal that had a long flexible neck is is no that well adapted to swimming as modern pinnipeds, so spent time in nearshore coasts.
- Mekosuchinae - A subfamily of terrestrial Cenozoic crocodiles
- Chigutisauridae - Family that the Koolasuchus is in
- Weigeltisauridae - Gliding reptiles from the Late Permian to the Early Triassic
- Machairodonts other than the stock species
- Hupehsuchia - Icthyosaur relatives that look like they’re trying to be shaped like Glaucus sea slugs
- Thalattosuchia - Marine Mesozoic crocodiles
- Baurusuchidae - Late Cretaceous, South American terrestrial crocodiles
- Metriorhynchinae and Geosaurinae - Metriorhynchus relatives

†Tangasauridae
- †Younginidae
Icthyosaur cousins that look like sea varanids

Purussaurus - A giant South American caiman and the Largest Cenozoic reptile.
Enhydriodon dikikae - A giant, African “Bear -Otter”. Featured in Ancestors: the Humankind Odessy
Siamogale melilutra - A wolf sized otter from Southern China with strong, flexible jaws.
- Megalenhydris - Giant Marine otter closely related to the clawless otter (ironically the smallest otters) and is on its way to be a sea monster

†Boreopteridae - apparently freshwater surface swimming or diving pterosaurs

* Pachycormidae - A family of Mesozoic Ray-finned fish (Leedsithys included)
* Thalassocnus - A group of medium sized marine ground sloths
* Macroraptorial sperm whales - highly predatory whales of the sperm whale family (Physeteroidea) of the Miocene epoch that hunted large marine mammals
* Jaekelopterus rhenaniae - A eurpyterid that is recorded as the largest ever arthropod
* Protopithecus - The largest ever New World Monkey with howler monkey-like vocal adaptations.
* Ornimegalonyx - Cuban Giant Owl. The largest ever owl. Largely terrestrial.
* Tube-sheep, Hyopsodus - A weasel-shaped echolocating perissodactyl. That ate bugs.
* Chasmaporthetes - The extinct, straight-backed Speed-Demon Hyena
* Raptorex - The smallest and still dubious genus of tyrannosaurid dinosaur from Mongolia and possibly northeastern China.
* Schizotheriinae - “Pawed” chalicotheres, like Ancylotherium and Moropus

* Eurhinodelphinidae - Swordfish dolphins

Planocraniidae - Hoofed terrestrial Cenozoic crocodiles
Quercylurus - The largest of the nimravids
Nanosmilus - the smallest nimravid as well as smallest saber toothed mammal recognized science. Despite its small size, Nanosmilus was still more than capable of killing animals as large as modern domestic pigs or deer, indicating it was already a specialist at hunting animals much larger than itself.

Indohyus - A cat or raccoon sized, semi aquatic, omnivorous digitrade artiodactylid of the Himalayas. Closely resembles chevrotains and is related to whales

Latenivenatrix - The largest of the troodontids and the replacement to the iconic Troodon. It’s basically a semi-omnivorous version of the JP raptors.

Palaeosaniwa - A large, 6 ft long basal varanoid lizard from Cretaceous North America

* Drepanosaurus - An insectivorous reptile that looks like a hybrid of a chameleon and a tamandua Anteater with a Thylacoleo-like claw on each forearm and a prehensile tail. Lived in Triassic New Mexico
* Drepanosauridae, a group of diapsid reptiles known for their prehensile tails.

* Rytiodus - A sirenian with short tusks used for extracting food from sand
* Elkaltadeta and Propleopus - a Genus of giant predatory rat kangaroos that are either completely carnivorous or omnivorous

* Koreaceratops - a very small semi-aquatic ceratopsian
* Liaoningosaurus - small semi aquatic ankylosaur that ate fish, very similiar to a pond turtle

* Scansoriopteryx - A sparrow sized gliding maniraptoran

* Fukuivenator - A herbivorous (or at least omnivorous) japanese maniraptoran dromeosaur-like theropod

* Beipiaosaurus - A small, fish-eating Asian therizinosaurus

* Aquilolamna - bizarre, planktivore manta-shark from Cretaceous Mexico

* Barbaturex - A giant herbivorous lizard related to the Uromastyx that lived in Myanmar during the Eocene at the Pondaung Formation.

* Corythoraptor - a non-avian cassowary

Dyskritodon amazighi - Another Mesozoic mammal that may have foraged in the sea
* Ocepechelon bouyai - A bizarre protostegid sea turtle that had a funnel snapped nose that it sucked up food with.
* Monotrematum sudamericanum - A South American platypus
* Dolichosauridae - Aquatic varanoids related to the mosasaurs
* Poposauroids - Bizarrely shaped archosaurs that may have looked like non avian dinosaurs but are more related to crocodilians
* Qianosuchus - Semi aquatic, 10 ft long carnivore. Southern China, Triassic period. The most basal poposaur. Looked like a very-land mobile nothosaur but may also occasionally be found in freshwater, much like the saltwater crocodile
* Ctenosauriscidae - fully terrestrial ambush carnivores quadrupeds with large sails. Quadrupedal but may occasionally rear up on they’re hindlegs
* Poposaurus - Derived genus. 13 ft long carnivore, bipedal, theropod like skull and teeth…was mistaken for one. The stance was pillar-erect instead of fully erect like actual theropods
* Lottosaurus - 8.2 ft long, toothless beaked jaws, herbivorous bush and shrub browser, sailbacked.
* Shuvosauridae - Light weight, slender, bipedal, fast running herbivores with toothless beaks. Convergently evolved with ornithomimids dinosaurs.
* Bizarre ceratosaurians
* Noasauridae - Hard to describe due to many shapes and sizes
* Elaphrosauridae - long necked, stilt legged, sometimes toothed carnivores and beaked herbivores
* Noasaurinae - Bizarre but more recognizable, generally carnivores, fly trap toothy mouthed, long legged and stilt legged and had small but not tiny arms
* Berthasaura Leopoldinae - A weird little herbivore that may have looked like a dryosaurus or a Leaellynasaura but with no teeth, a slightly hooked beak, a very birdlike head and tiny and useless arms.
* Seldom seen Entelodonts
* Proentelodon minutus - most ancient smallest middle eocenemongolia no bigger than house cat omnivore lifestyle Indian Pygmy hog tropical forest dweller
* Eoentelodon - mid to late eocene china collared peccary size tropical forest
* Archaeotherium - highly successful eurasia 3ft 11 inches, size of wild boar. Looked like long legged wildpig without a snout semi arid forested and river bed environments
* Paraentelodon - Robust teeth, sturdy molars crusher open savanah

* Pampatheres- armadillo-like xenathrans other than the glyptodonts
* Pseudoglyptodons - The oldest sloths from the Late eocene
* Sebecidae- theropod-headed Cenozoic and Mesozoic crocodile-like successors to the theropod dinosaurs. Terrestrial and semi aquatic species exist. Ambush predators.
* Barinasuchus is the largest of them all. 6 meters long or more.

* Proterochampsians - early, bizarre, semi-aquatic crocodile-like archosaurs
* Doswellia - North American late Triassic 2 meters long looked like a wide bodied, long necked, narrow shouted crocodile or like one of those furry weasel toys. Weaker bite than modern crocs. Semi aquatic but like a Cuban crocodile, may have spent some more time on land
* Vancleavea - A Triassic long necked, lizard faced newt-tailed species that looked a bit like a lungfish, but with interlocking front fangs. 1.2 meters long
* Jaxtasuchus - Heavily armored and semi aquatic carnivore. Kind-of like a croc headed ankylosaur with no club tail.
* Proterochampsa - Looked like a big headed, narrow shouted crocodile, dermal armor plates and with very long legs. Adapted to both land and water.
* Pseudochampsa - Smaller and more doglike! Dog croc…Mostly terrestrial. May have chased down prey
* Chanaresuchus - Similiar but with no dermal armor.

* Annakocygna - A large marine swan from Miocene Japan that was flightless and filter feeds at the sea’s surface.
* Campanile giganteum - The reallife prehistoric Gary. A giant sea snail from the Eocene. With a shell length of r0 to 60 cm
* Paradoxomys cancrivorus - A large, possibly carnivorous New World porcupine that may have fed on fish and crustaceans.
* Lophocyonidae - A bizarre family of mostly herbivorous feliforms that largely resembled the unrelated coatis.
* Paenemarmota - A large ground squirrel from Pliocene Mexico that was around the size range of a beaver.
* Hesperotherium - A bizarrely, short and kindof ape-faced chalicothere and one of the last ones to make to to the Pleistocene. And may have to brave winter snow and ice.
* Zalambdalestes - A hopping, bilby-like, non-placental eutherian mammal from Upper Cretaceous Mongolia.

* Notosuchians - Very bizarre crocodiles with mammal-like features like mobile lips, sometimes elongated snouts and even carnivoran and rodent-like teeth.
* Pakasuchus - A very catlike notosuchian that may have caught bugs in its catlike teeth.
* Suminia - An arboreal, monkey-like anomodont therapsid
* Tyto Pollens - A giant, Eagle-sized Bahamian barn owl.
* Macroeuphractus - A giant carnivorous armadillo from the Late Miocene to Late Pliocene of South America
* Kretzoiarctos Beatrix - The oldest and most basal of the giant panda lineage. Found in Miocene Europe
* Miomaci Pannonicum - A younger European giant panda
* Ailurarctos - Smaller more omnivorous pandas. Had the transitional teeth between the usual bears and the pandas
* Proapteryx micromeros - Extinct, smaller flying cousin of the kiwis. Shorter bill and slender hindlimbs, more proportionate to banded rails.
* Maraapunisaurus - Formally known as Amphicoelis, and is sometimes regarded as the largest land animal, rivaling argentinosaurus.
* Hapalops - A very small 3 ft long ground sloth. Small enough to may have engaged in climbing behavior.
* Pterosphenus - A palaeophiid sea snake of the mid Eocene. 5 to 16 meters long, had a long narrow snout and ate mainly fish.
* Proteothrinax goliath - A giant Frilled shark from Late Cretaceous, Angola. 7 meters…larger than great whites in length and,Ah have fed on animals as large as juvenile mosasaurs. And also loved in shallower waters compared to their modern cousins,…so may have more bluish countershading colors and tones.

* Ankylosphenodon - An Early Cretaceous marine relative of the tuatara. As evidenced by the constantly growing teeth, it was a herbivore making it the first herbivorous marine reptile in the Mesozoic.
* Atopodentatus - A lizard-like marine reptile with a muzzle that looks like the head of a hammer-head shark and filled with numerous small chisel-shaped teeth. The second Mesozoic herbivorous marine reptile after Ankylosphenodon. Formerly thought to be a filter feeder, this semi-aquatic reptile actually actually feed on seabed algae.

* Rhamphastosula - A booby with a giant toucan-like beak
* Megalochoerus humungous - The largest suid to ever live and the TRUE hell pig. A large entelodont-like suid from Miocene Africa that’s even bigger than the unicorn pig, Kubanochoerus..
* Lithornithidae - An order of flying birds from the Paleocene to the Eocene (and possibly the Late Cretaceous) that were closely related to modern day ratites.
* Giant Ostrich (Pachystruthio) - A large flightless bird from Late Pliocene - Middle Pleistocene Eurasia. It was q1.5 ft tall and sighed 990 Ib, making it much larger than the modern day ostrich. Despite its name, its relationship with the genus Struthio is not clear.

* Hyracoidae - Large prehistoric relatives of modern day hyraxes
* Kvabebihyrax kachethicus - A semiaquatic “hippo hyrax” with a face that looks like a parrotfish grew sid the sloth’s nose. Lived in Pliocene Caucasus.
* Flange cheeked pig - Bizarre Piggies with very prominent cheek flanges… genuses consists of Mckennahyus, Skinnerhyus, Protherohyus, Macrogenis, Mylohyus, Prosthenops and Platygonus.
* Batodonoides vanhouteni - A very small extinct shrew-like animal. The smallest mammal (and overall synapsid) to have ever lived. Lived during the Early Eocene in North America…
* Puma incurva - An African cougar that thrived in the Laetolli site in Africa during the. Formerly thought to be early leopards. Filled the niches of leopards before they were taken over…
* Dromornithidae, known as mihirungs and informally as thunder birds or demon ducks, were a clade of large, flightless Australian birds of the Oligocene through Pleistocene Epochs.

* MYTH AND CRYPTIDS
Mythical

* https://cryptidarchives.fandom.com/wiki/Encyclopedia_of_Cryptozoology
* https://cryptidz.fandom.com/wiki/Cryptid_Wiki
* https://mythology.wikia.org/wiki/Main_Page
* https://itsmth.fandom.com/wiki/It%27s_Something_Wiki
* https://offbeat.fandom.com/wiki/Offbeat_Mythology_Wiki
* https://www.deviantart.com/cyclone62/gallery/63034811/mythology
* https://creatures-of-myth.fandom.com
* VPN enabled - https://abookofcreatures.com/2020/11/16/ebigane/


* Peryton ~ the bird deer that have human shadows, removed after they kill a human
* Wolpertingers and Skvaders - Like jackalopes but more chimeric…and care winged
* Ahuizotl - An aquatic predator of Aztec mythology in Mexico. A canine-like creatyre with small pointed ears, a smooth and slipper otter like black coat, grabby pass like a raccoon or monkey and a long tail that has a bony spur underneath as well as a hand like grabber at the top. It inhabits caves within the watery depths and will eat the eyes, teeth and nails of humans after drowning them by grabbing them with it’s grasper and sezinjng them once they reach it’s cave. The bodies are left unscathed. If there are no human prey, it will lure them with its call, which sounds like a weeping child or a baby. MY DEPICTION: A bizarre and dangerous cousin of the yapok.
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* ~ Gullinbursti (Norse boar mount with a glowing pelt (described as golden) and the ability to run better than any horse, as in through air and water)
* ~ Sæhrímnir ( A boar that is always eaten and served, but always resurrects itself after the ordeal and continues to provide substinance throughtout it's life )
* ~ Shug Monkey ( Acreature that has he head of a monkey and the body of a shaggy black dog. My interpretion will make it a baboon like creature with dog torso and a long shaggy dog tail for balance)
* ~ Two-toed Tom ( A massive alligator of legend with only two toes due to the rest lost the rest to a steel trap. Terrorizes the animals and swamp residing humans of the Alabama-Florida border in the Southern U.S. He cannot be killed ugh guns OR dynamite and is evidenced by two toed tracks found in 1980s)
* ~ Axe-handle hound ( A North American nocturnal, foraging canine with short, stubby legs. It's torso and head resembles an axe blade and handle. Eats unattended axe handles that it seeks from camp to camp)
* ~ Teakettler ( A small, cat-eared dog with stubby legs. Very shy and rarely seen, only walks backwards and produces steam from it's mouth when it vocalises, a high pitched noise similiar to a real tea kettle. Thrives in Minnesota and Wisconsin)
* ~ Agropelter ( A mythical fearsome critter that has a slender wirely body, a villanous ape face and muscular whiplash-like tentacles for arms. It lives in coniferous forests of Maine and Oregon, sheltered within the hollow trees. Aggressive towards intruders and throws branches and splinters at them like she'll projectiles from a 6 inch gun, which it gains by snapping them off the trees it lives in. Feeds on woodpeckers, hoot owls, high holes and dozy (rotten) wood. Pups are rared in Feb 29 and always comes in odd numbers (1,3,5,7,.....) )
* ~ Gajasimha ( A SEAsian mythical  creature that has the head of an elephant and the body of a lion. My interpretion is similar but with the lion body being very bulky and large, the elephant head being maned and mammoth/mastodon like. A Leonine Baku)
* ~ Ophiotaurus ( A bull and serpent hybrid of Greek Mythology with power-granting entrails. Can come in various interpretion but my Interpretion will have it be having the lower body be a snake and the upper half be a bull, but with fangs, forked tongue and a throat to belly lines.
* ==>Oh man, Daisy and Hissy are gonna be at each other's throats (Then again, they're owner is too angst-y to let that happen, even if they are just friends, which 
* ~ Calygreyhound ( wildcat head, cervid body, eagle front talons, antlers or horns, leonine or bovine hindlegs, lion or poodle tail. Rarely depicted with eagle wings. )
* ~ Snallygaster ( A winged dragon beast that looks like a hybrid of a reptile,avian and cephalopod with a sharp-toothed metallic beak and tentacles. 
* Sometimes cyclopian
* Flies silently in the sky and snatches it's victims by air.
* Stalks the hills surrounding Washington, D.C and Frederick County, Maryland. )
* ~ Dwayyo ( werewolf-like but spends more time on all fours, size of a bear, hairy, bush tailed, partially bipedal and canine. Arch enemy of the Snallygaster)

* ~ Piasa (native anerican dragon. Large as a calf, scaly,  has antlers, red eyes, has a tiger beard (sideburns), looks horrible, slightly manlike face, and a long tail that can wind around it's body and ends with a fish's tail.


* ~ Letiche ( An ghostly, infantile or childlike (in appearance) swamp creature that dwells the bayou of Lousiana, U.S. Said to be the soul of an unlawfully baptized infant or a kid (has to be a kid) raised by alligators. Upsets boats and attacks travelers.)

* ~ Jaculus ( An small arboreal dragon or serpent that ambushes it's prey from the trees and causes serious wounds with it's blows. Has wings and occasionally front limbs. )
* ~ Tannin ( A twin tailed Sea Serpent from Canaanite, Phoenician, and Hebrew mythology that is a symbol of chaos and evil )
* ~ Bune ( A mighty and strong, talking three-headed dragon ( either griffonlike, canine, humanoid, or draconian each in appearance) that is the duke of hell, and has thirty legions of demons under his control that gather in tombs, all claimed by changing the place of the dead. Is also a suave guru that can make men wiser, more eloquent and even rich and answers all questions truthfully, with an attractive highly voice.)
* ~ Campe ( A female dragon sphinx from Greek Mythology that guards Tartarus. Has the head and bust of a woman, the body of a black-winged, "crooktalon sickle clawed dragon" and a scorpian's stinger filled with lethal venom. Also has snakes around her ankles and a sickening belt of fifty predatory mammals around her waist )
* Halcyon - a mythical bird said by ancient writers to breed in a nest floating at sea at the winter solstice, charming the wind and waves into calm.
* Make it resemble
* Indrik or Indrik-Beast - A gigantic beast from Russian folklore that is the king of all animals and lives on the untouched “Holy Mountain”. Causes tremors as it stirs. Resembles a gigantic bull with cervine legs, an equine head and a large horn on it’s snout.
* It may resemble a fantastical version of an indricotherium or a paraceratherium.
* Cath Palug - Monsterous cat from Welsh legend that stalks the Isle and Anglesey and killed 180 Warriors. Birthed by the sow, Henwen of Cornwall.
* Yule Cat - Also known as Jólakötturinn. An giant vicious cat of Icelandic christmas lore that stalks the snowy taigas and eats people who have not received new clothes on Christmas.
* Sermilik - Or “Ice Clad” is a giantic, dangerous polar bear of Aasiaat, Greenland. With ice clumps infused on parts of its tufts of fur which it uses to camoflage in the water and hunt unknowing human hunters.
* Bjarndýrakóngur - (meaning “bear king” in Icelandic) From Icelandic mythology. A larger than usual polar bear said to be the result of a normal polar bear mating with a walrus. It bears red cheek markings or sideburns and an Amber unicorn-horn that glows in the dark, helping it navigate the darkness. Also portrayed with sentient intelligence and ruling regular polar bears. Reasonable enough to no attack without provocation and is quick to punish his followers if they do so.
* I would illustrate with minor walrus features, have the horn be either of a narwhal or an elasmotherium or give it very low opacity cockatiel markings to go with the red cheeks or for the creepy factor, slightly reference the creepy deep sea fish with glowing cheeks.
* Kukuweaq (or Qoqogaq) - From Alaskan mythology, portrayed as a ten legged polar bear (five on each side)
* I would illustrate it with some aspects of a tardigrade, but not completely a freaky faced hybrid like that one sketched illustration I saw. For further creativity would also reference Appa the Sky Bison or velvet worms.
* As for the 10 legs…maybe make the third limb section intermediate between and fore and hind limb.
* Upland Trout - A Fearsome Critter. A completely terrestrial fish that like a bird, can fly and nest upon the highest boughs of trees. Stated to be absolutely delicious when cooked and eaten, leading to wild goose chases to hunt down this fictional creature. Debatable whether it has wings or not.
* I would illustrate it as a fish-like, flying, bird-wyvern-like Elpistostegidae with fins that allow it to fly like a bird

* Ebigane - Of Fang of Cameroon, Gabon, and Equatorial Guinea folklore…especially in legends and sagas sung by mvett players. Either ambiguous animalistic monster, or a humanoid…or a mixture of both.
* Depiction 1: A giant muroid with massive spayed ears, buffalo-like horns, sharp fangs, longer legs with sharp claws and a longer tail, and batlike wings….
* Basically a mouse/rat dragon or gargoyle

* Hujiao (or tiger dragon) - Piscine bodies with snakelike tails. Sounds like a mandarin duck.
OTHER VARIATIONS
* Cuo-fish - They can hide in they’re mother’s womb
* Tiger-cuo- Black and yellow patterns. Ears, eyes and teeth of a Tiger. Can turn full Tiger. All were probably actually sharks.
* Eating Huijao flesh prevents hemorrhoids

* My depiction could make it a literal “tiger-shark”
* Or a hybrid of a Tiger and a pearlfish or moray eel (cuz snake+fish parts)
* Or also add actual snake parts like fangs and forked tongue
* Could also add mosasaur parts to be the glue to the snake and fish parts
* Could either be able to shift from piscine to big cat form (while having lesser expects of each for symmetry)
* Or just make it a Tiger-fish semi aquatic versatile hybrid or have it be a less land-versatile crocodile-like anatomy or a clawed Tiktaalik

* Nuppeppō - A Japanese Yokai. A nocturnal, anthromorphic blob of flesh that is 1.5 meters high and has a face-like dent on its front (no actual head) that has stumpy arms and legs with implied fingers. Unbearable stench like rotting meat. They often inhabit abandoned buildings, temples or graveyards. Only coming out at the end of the year.
* Pretty swift and elusive despite appearance
* Usually calm and docile. But some like actually stink things up or gross out people.
* If the flesh is eaten (or managed to be stomached ), it can grant incredible power or other panacean (simulation or remedy for all difficulties or diseases) properties.
* Some think it is a rotten meat golem, or even a human corpse golem. Or an inexperienced shapeshifter like a tanuki
* My versions could be either
* A fleshy version of the mud Pokémon but with legs
* A disfigured blobby version of any Japanese shapeshifting Yokai
* A human flesh golem or rotten meat golem

* Karadag Snake - A giant, semi-Aquatic sea snake with a 50 cm head and has been around since the Mesozoic. Lived around the waters of the Karadag volcano in Crimea, Russia. It survived into modern time since the volcano kept the waters it inhabited warmer than the rest of the Black Sea. Responsible for killing a lot of dolphins and had a lot of people missing
* My interpretation is either a Arctic-themed marine titanoboa or a gigantic cold-water palaeophis
* Or an elongated, long-necked mosasaur or a crocodylomorph

* Grampus - A bizarre cryptid that’s assential an arboreal dolphin or porpoise. It dwells within the branches of ancient yew trees in the churchyard of Highclere village’s in the northern Hampshire County within the Berkshire Border. It’s known for being territorial, scaring off villagers by either chasing them of letting out a cacophony or wheezing and guttural noises. It is also believed to be a denizen of hell that can be banished to the Red Sea for 1,000 years
* The wheezes and guttural noises could be blowhole breathing or those deep growls/purrs heard by cetaceans in media with an exorcism by a bell book and candle.
MY INTERPRETATION
* A dolphin or porpoise with an ottarid like physiology (maintaining the primitive hind flippers and keeping the tail and fluke, which may now be prehensile)
* A hybrid of a semi-aquatics basal whale and fully aquatic modern toothed whales…with the limbs being dexterous and webbed in a way where it resembles flippers but actually acts as rubbery suction…like hyraxes or mountain goats
* The dall’s porpoise markings could act as Canada goose markings, to accommodate its territorial aggression.
* Could also make it a new sentient race for the Hazbin/Helluva universe

Lukwata - A large carnivorous lake monster from Lake Victory, Great Rift Valley, Africa. 20 to 30 ft long with a dolphin-like body with a long neck and a small, square-shaped head. It’s brownish in color with a white underbelly. It’s highly aggressive and is known to attack people. Its only competitor is the crocodile, which it regularly engages in battle with. It preys on fish as big as 12 ft.
* My interpretation
* Either a large eel-like coelacanth
* A freshwater african plesiosaur with features like a false killer whale
* A long necked false killer-whale like cetacean
* Or a bizarre aquatic afrotherian

Masbate Monster (get your heads out of the gutter) - A 40ft long aquatic creature of Masbate Island. Said to have a mix of eel and bovine features with dark scaley skin, a turtle-like head, a mammalian blowhole, long tail and four flippers. Its meat got eaten by natives before it could be studied further by cryptozoologists.
My interpretations
* Giant Shelless alligator snapping turtle with sea turtle flippers and bovine horns
* Alternatively have the head look like a hornless ceratopsian (as a gap between a bovine and a turtle)
* Or a large primitive fish of an unknown genus…and is kindof like a lungfish as well.