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Scientific Monsters
Oct. 6th, 2010 02:53 pmFound while looking up something unrelated on Wikipedia:
"Animalia Paradoxa are the mythical, magical or otherwise suspect animals included in early editions of Carl Linnaeus' seminal work Systema Naturae under the wastebasket taxon of Paradoxa."
Included in this category are Hydra, Satyrs, Phoenix, Dragons and Manticores.
I kind of want to see something like this in a fantasy setting - some poor bastard trying hard to scientifically categorise a magical world before giving up in frustration on encountering a Chimera or something and eventually just lumping almost everything into a 'miscellaneous' category...
"Animalia Paradoxa are the mythical, magical or otherwise suspect animals included in early editions of Carl Linnaeus' seminal work Systema Naturae under the wastebasket taxon of Paradoxa."
Included in this category are Hydra, Satyrs, Phoenix, Dragons and Manticores.
I kind of want to see something like this in a fantasy setting - some poor bastard trying hard to scientifically categorise a magical world before giving up in frustration on encountering a Chimera or something and eventually just lumping almost everything into a 'miscellaneous' category...