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Index

Page numbers in
italics
refer to illustrations.

Abyss, The
(film),
98

Academy of Medical Science,
49–50

Aché people,
8

acromegaly,
20

Aegean Plate,
56
,
57

algal organisms,
58–59

Alien
(film),
1
,
204–7
,
211

alien abduction,
198–99

aliens,
3–4
,
6
,
135
,
198–211

Aliens
(film),
198
,
207

Alzheimer’s disease,
158

Anaconda
(film),
77
,
119

Anatolia,
149

Andean condors,
25

Andromeda,
74
,
88

antivenin,
28
,
70
,
71
n

Apollodorus,
9
,
16
,
52
,
64–65
,
102

Apollonius Rhodius,
101

Apsu,
100

aquatic tube worms,
58–59

Arachnophobia
(film),
30
,
31

Arcimboldo, Giuseppe,
21

Ariadne,
53

Arnold, Kathryn,
5

Artemidorus,
127–28
,
130
,
132

Artemis,
10–11
,
12

artificial intelligence,
176–81

Asimov, Isaac,
181

asymmetry,
45–46
,
167–68

atavisms,
36

Athena,
65

Augustine, Saint,
124

Australia,
188–89

Avatar
(film),
214–18

Babylonian myths,
99–100
,
105

backdraft,
119

Backdraft
(film),
119

bacteria,
141–42
,
147
,
149
n,
199

Baho-li-kong-ya,
117

basilisk,
77–78

Battlestar Galactica
(TV show),
177
,
178
,
181

bearded vulture,
27

bears,
178
,
183
,
191
n

Benchley, Peter,
93–94

Benton, Michael,
40

Beowulf,
99
,
108–9
,
111–13

berserkers,
145

Bible,
71
n,
85–86
,
122
,
165

Biomacromolecules,
168
n

Biotropica,
12
n

birds,
23–29
,
30
,
195–97

Birds, The
(film),
30

“Black Destroyer” (van Vogt),
207

blood,
136
,
137
,
142

blood transfusions,
168–69
,
180

blue-footed booby,
159–60
,
171

boars,
12
,
13–14
,
17
n,
20–21
,
22–23
,
30

Bondeson, Jan,
142–43

botfly,
206

Bowman, Rob,
118

brain,
68–69

brown mussel,
95

Buffy the Vampire Slayer
(TV show),
159
,
161

bulls,
51–55

burial while alive,
142–43

Buried Alive
(Bondeson),
142–43

Burton, Richard,
23

Byrne, Charles,
19
,
20

Cain and Abel,
155

Callimachus,
54

Calmet, Augustin,
140

Calydonian Boar,
10–12
,
14
,
17
,
21–22
,
27
,
31
,
33
,
35
,
213

Calydonian Boar Hunt, The
(Kleitias),
11

Calydonian Boar Hunt, The
(Rubens),
22

Cameron, James,
98
,
177
,
207
,
214

cane beetles,
188–89

cane toads,
189

Capo Peloro,
82

Caravaggio, Michelangelo,
73
,
74

carbon,
58–59

Carthage,
105–7

cats,
92
,
183

Cellini, Benvenuto,
73

Cerberus,
34
,
37
,
39
,
47

Cetus,
88

chaos theory,
186–87
,
188

Charybdis,
43
,
80–82
,
83–84
,
85
,
89

Chauvet cave,
54

Chimera,
34–38
,
42
,
44
,
45
,
47
,
50
,
110
,
159
,
165
,
167
,
173

Chimera of Arezzo,
34

Chimera Versus Pegasus,
42

chimpanzees,
73

China,
114
,
115
,
132

Christianity,
122
,
129–30

Chrysaor,
64

Circe,
80–82
,
124
,
137

Clarke, Arthur C.,
111
n,
177

Clash of the Titans, The
(films),
76–77
,
88

Close Encounters of the Third Kind
(film),
210

coal mines,
111
,
119

Cockatrice,
34
,
38–39

Cohen, Rob,
115

color blindness,
72
n

colossal squids,
92–93

Columbus, Chris,
76
,
78

conjoined twins,
37

Contagion
(film),
163
,
214

continental crust,
55–57

Cooper, Merian,
31

Cordyceps,
208

coyotes,
192

Craven, Wes,
134

Crete,
1
,
51–52
,
53–57
,
60

crime,
160–61

crocodiles,
92–93
,
107

Cuarón, Alfonso,
158

Cyclops,
14

Cylons,
177
,
178

Daidalos,
52
,
164–65

daïmônes,
124
,
126
,
129
,
130

dams,
189–91

Dances with Wolves
(film),
216

Dante’s Peak
(film),
61–62
,
63

dark,
80
,
218–19

Darwin, Charles,
217

Datura stramonium,
147

Davis, Desmond,
76

Davis, Edmund Wade,
145–47

Day the Earth Stood Still, The
(film),
209–10