An overview of the world of dragons, from ancient Greece and medieval Europe to pre-Columbian America and ancient China, features lore about the origins, feats, and histories of these mysterious beasts

Dragons: A Natural History

Religion & Spirituality

Shuker, Karl P.N.

New Age & Spirituality

Simon&Schuster

Mystery Cats of the World

Reference

Robert Hale, Ltd.

The appearance, behaviour and habitat of 50 animals which continue to perplex the zoological community are the subject of this book. The 50 animals include the giant mystery "ape" of South America, the extraordinary singing dog of New Guinea and gigantic flesh-eating birds.

Extraordinary Animals Worldwide

Science & Math

Biological Sciences

In this ground-breaking book, noted zoologist Dr Karl P.N. Shuker reveals how the annals of contemporary science contain many recently-discovered, living examples of ancient creatures - creatures hitherto believed to have vanished long ago from our planet. By extension, these 'living fossils' - such as New Zealand's tuatara (a lizard-like dinosaur contemporary) and that famously archaic lobe-finned fish, the coelacanth - provide strong evidence for believing that all is not what it might seem in the world of orthodox zoology. This book presents some startling and controversial possibilities - including the prospect of living dinosaurs amid the world's most impenetrable swamplands; winged beasts irresistibly reminiscent of pterodactyls and prehistoric giant vultures, long-necked plesioraurian sea serpents, and a plethora of mammalian Methuselahs, ranging from surviving sabre-toothed tigers to living mammoths.

In Search of Prehistoric Survivors: Do Giant `Extinct' Creatures Still Exist?

Blandford Pr

In Search of Prehistoric Survivors: Do Giant Extinct Creatures Still Exist?

Politics & Social Sciences

Archaeology

Cassell Illustrated*

Thanks to an ever-growing number of startling zoological discoveries, Cryptozoology (the study of hidden animals) has become an increasingly hot topic. As researchers probe deeper and deeper into jungles and wilderness areas, they uncover astonishing species of animals and plants that were previously unknown or only the subjects of folklore or rumor. For years, Dr. Karl P. N. Shuker has been researching these creatures on the borderline of the known. In the Search for the Last Undiscovered animals, he tells their stories, providng entertaining, carefully researched narratives about these mysterious, mythological-like creatures. Among his astounding subject: The dobhar-chu, Ireland's mysterious master otter. Mongolia's death worm, which reportedly electrocutes its victims. The bloodrinking "death bird" of Ethiopia. The tzuchinoko, a bizarre Japanese snake with a bounty on its horned head. The Chinese ink monkey, no larger than a mouse. Hairy reptiles, furry fish, crypto-bats, man-eating plants, and more..Shuker apples a rigourous scientific method to these reports of animals whose existence is not yet formally recognized. Even-handedly, he presents the evidence, then analyzes these eyewitness acoutns and second-hand testimony and offers an opinion on whether these sightings are mistaken, the stuff of legend, or clear evidence of creatures who roamed or still roam our earth.

The Search for the Last Undiscovered Animals

Fall_River_Press

An international, geographically structured survey of mysterious, unexplained phenomena from various regions of the globe ranges from the natural world, to the extra-terrestrial, to the paranormal, written in a non-sensationalized style that provides the facts of each case succinctly and accurately.

The Unexplained: An Illustrated Guide to the World's Natural and Paranormal Mysteries

Social Sciences

World Pubns

At the beginning of the 20th century, scientists and laymen alike appear to have been peculiarly confident that the world had been thoroughly explored and most of its creatures named and documented. Few, if any, large animals still awaited discovery. The scientific unveiling of the giraffe-like okapi in 1901 was one of the earliest of this century's discoveries to shake this belief. But many consider it to be the last great find, and view the rediscovery of extinct animals to be as likely as the alchemic conversion of iron into gold. Since 1901, however, a whole host of new and rediscovered creatures has turned up to contradict these views-including a giant 7-ft-long forest hog from Africa, a colossal Indonesian monitor lizard called the Komodo dragon, the lobe-finned coelacanth fish resurrected from 64 million years of supposed extinction, the incredible megamouth shark, deep-sea tube-dwelling worms over 8 ft tall with huge red tentacles resembling strange alien flowers, plus the extraordinary Vu Quang ox and giant barking deer both discovered in Vietnam during the 1990s. And discoveries continue to be made today, in the 21st century-ranging diversely and dramatically from giant peccaries and zombie worms to an entire new suborder of insects known as the gladiators, a veritable jungle of new monkeys, and an extraordinary chameleonesque snake. And nor can we possibly forget the sensational rediscovery in North America of the near-legendary, supposedly long-extinct ivory-billed woodpecker. The Encyclopaedia of New and Rediscovered Animals is the third, wholly-updated edition of the very first-and still the definitive-book to be devoted to the spectacular zoological discoveries and equally amazing rediscoveries of the 20th century, which attracted international acclaim and exemplary reviews following its original publication in 1993 (when it was entitled The Lost Ark), and its subsequent republication in 2002 as an updated, greatly-expanded second edition (entitled The New Zoo). This latest edition also contains an in-depth survey of the 21st century's most celebrated discoveries and rediscoveries made during its first decade, plus an exhaustive, significantly-increased bibliography, as well as the only comprehensive collection of colour and b/w illustrations of these spectacular animal species ever published (including new, previously-unpublished photographs, and several exclusive, specially-commissioned full-colour paintings). Unquestionably, The Encyclopaedia of New and Rediscovered Animals provides good reason indeed for believing that our world continues to holds many more animal surprises in store for future revelation.

The Encyclopaedia of New and Rediscovered Animals

Coachwhip Publications

Of all the countless legendary beasts that have been conjured forth from the seemingly limitless capacity of the human imagination, none can remotely compare with the dragon for its sheer diversity of form, its symbolic significance, and its cross-cultural presence. Dragons are everywhere-still glimpsed in the living, breathing beasts around us that inspired and engendered their birth in our far-distant ancestors' dreams, and nightmares; perennially encountered in the myriad of traditional myths and folklore woven into the fabric of every creed and culture around the world; and ever-visible within the innumerable outpourings of artistic creation that have graced and enhanced our species' existence across all temporal, political, social, and geographical boundaries. So from where, and from what, has such widespread-indeed, worldwide-belief in these creatures stemmed? There can be no doubt that a major factor influencing the origin of the dragon is early humanity's observations and interactions with various distinctive and potentially inimical creatures of reality sharing our world. Equally thought-provoking is how and why the dragon has become so intimately associated with our own species. This multi-faceted monster of mythology is more than amply represented visually, for example, by artwork of every conceivable style, age, and category. And the dragon's status in religion, dreams, alchemy, psychology, astrology, literature, movies, and music is as compelling as it is complex. These many diverse but equally captivating themes are all fully explored in this spellbinding book's uniquely comprehensive coverage, and provide ample confirmation that there is no sign whatsoever of waning interest for what must surely be the most vibrant, tenacious, and fascinating creature that has never existed-the dragon.

Dragons in Zoology, Cryptozoology, and Culture

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Dragons: A Natural History

Mystery Cats of the World

Extraordinary Animals Worldwide

In Search of Prehistoric Survivors: Do Giant `Extinct' Creatures Still Exist?

In Search of Prehistoric Survivors: Do Giant Extinct Creatures Still Exist?

The Search for the Last Undiscovered Animals

The Unexplained: An Illustrated Guide to the World's Natural and Paranormal Mysteries

The Encyclopaedia of New and Rediscovered Animals

The Encyclopaedia of New and Rediscovered Animals

Dragons in Zoology, Cryptozoology, and Culture