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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, 71n
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, 149n, 199
Baho-li-kong-ya, 117
basilisk, 77–78
Battlestar Galactica (TV show), 177, 178, 181
bearded vulture, 27
bears, 178, 183, 191n
Benchley, Peter, 93–94
Benton, Michael, 40
Beowulf, 99, 108–9, 111–13
berserkers, 145
Bible, 71n, 85–86, 122, 165
Biomacromolecules, 168n
Biotropica, 12n
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, 17n, 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., 111n, 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, 72n
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
deadbeat dads, 160, 161
DeBlois, Dean, 115
De Civitate Dei (Augustine), 124
demons, 116, 121–22, 214
Dilophosaurus, 187
dinosaur footprints, 27
dinosaurs, 90, 103, 104, 182–97
Diplodocus, 27, 182
District 9 (film), 211
DNA, 16, 19, 170, 185–86, 194, 195, 197
dolphins, 36, 53, 88, 196
Douyon, Lamarck, 144–45
Doyle, Arthur Conan, 184
Dracula (Stoker), 151n, 156–57
DragonHeart (film), 116, 118
dragons, 99–119, 162, 211–12
Dragons of Eden, The (Sagan), 103–4
drowning, 80
Dürer, Albrecht, 21
eagles, 25, 42–43, 116
Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 59
earthquakes, 57, 60–61, 62, 63, 84, 186
Eastwick, Paul, 172–73
Egypt, 113, 117, 150, 203
elephant birds, 26–27
Ellis, David, 77
Emmerich, Roland, 203
Ephialtes, 128, 130, 132
Epic of Gilgamesh, The, 156
Eragon (film), 115, 118
E.T., 210–11
Euripedes, 63–64, 102
Evans, Arthur, 54–55
evolution, 15–16, 36, 46, 72, 77, 148–49, 170–71, 195–96, 200, 201, 217, 218
Evolution, 148–49
Fast, Nathanael, 175–76
fear, 2–5, 6, 9, 79–80
shock from, 68–69
of water predators, 94–95, 98
femme fatales, 173
Finkel, Eli, 172–73
fire, 44–45, 108, 109–13, 119
fire pit graves, 114
First Fossil Hunters, The (Mayor), 14, 38, 116n
First Punic War, 105–7
Florida Museum of Natural History, 94
fossils, 38–39, 66–67, 73, 81
Frankenstein (Shelley), 167–69, 170, 171, 173–74, 175, 176–77, 181, 211, 214
Fry, Bryan, 70
Füssli, Johann, 120–21, 121, 128
Fu-ts’ang, 114, 116
Garden of Eden, 71n
garlic, 149–53
Garuda, 28, 29
Genesis, 165
genetic engineering, 48–50
Geoffrey of Monmouth, 107–8, 123–24
Geological Survey, U.S., 191
George, Saint, 99
geysers, 61
Ghostbusters (film), 120, 133
Glen Canyon Dam, 189–91
goats, 35–36, 41, 44
Golden Fleece, 101, 113
Golem, 165–66
Gómez-Alonso, Juan, 151
Gorgons, 63, 64
Greece, 12n, 87, 115, 137, 155
Greeks, 22, 43–44
Griffin, 34, 38
growth hormone, 18
gui ya shen, 132
Haast’s eagle, 25–27
Hadly, Elizabeth, 192
Hadza, 126, 127
Haiti, 143–47
HAL 9000, 164, 177–78
hallucinations, 131, 134
Han dynasty, 114, 115
Harry Potter books (Rowling), 77, 110, 158–59
Harry Potter films, 78, 99, 118, 119
Hawaii, 60–62, 116
Hays, Angelo, 142–43
Hera, 9, 115
Hercules, 9–10, 21, 33, 88
Hercules or Perseus and Sea Monster, 89
Herodotus, 127
Hertig, Silvia, 89
Hesiod, 34, 37, 42n, 44, 63, 122
Himilco, 103
Historium rerum Anglicarum (William of Newburgh), 137–38
History of the Kings of Britain (Geoffrey of Monmouth), 107–8, 123–24, 125–26, 130
Homer, 10–11, 34, 43, 44, 80–82, 84, 87, 121–22, 125, 129, 137, 140
Hooke, Robert, 67
horses, 36
hot spots, 61
Howard, Ron, 119
How to Train Your Dragon (film), 116, 118
Hughes, David, 206
Humboldt squid, 93
hurricanes, 186
Hurston, Zora Neale, 143
Hydra, 33, 37, 39
hypothermia, 80
hypovolemic shock, 68–69
I, Robot (Asimov), 181
I Ching, 116
identical twins, 37
Iliad (Homer), 10–11, 341
incubi, 123–24, 126, 128, 129, 132
Independence Day (film), 203
India, 28–29
Indonesia, 55, 63
Interpretation of Dreams (Artemidorus), 128
Interview with the Vampire (Rice), 16, 159, 162, 163
Iron Age, 112
Isis, 107
Island of Dr. Moreau, The (Wells), 33, 46–49, 169, 170
Israel, 44, 45
Italy, 82, 83
Jackson, Peter, 211
jaguars, 8
Japan, 55, 57, 81, 82
Jason, 99, 101–2
Jason about to Steal the Golden Fleece, 102
Jason and the Dragon, 102
Jaws (film), 93–94, 118n—19n, 214
Job, Book of, 85–86, 122
Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 147
Journal of Experimental Psychology, 72–73
Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 175–76
Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, 92
Journey to the Center of the Earth (Verne), 184
Jurassic Park (Crichton), 39, 181, 184–85, 186, 187, 188, 193, 195, 214
Keizer, Kees, 160–61
King, Stephen, 133, 157
King Kong films, 31–32, 47, 211, 217
Kleitias, 11
Knossos, 54–55
kokma, 132
Komodo dragons, 188
Korbonits, Márta, 19–20
Kraken, 88
Kubrick, Stanley, 133, 177
La Brea Tar Pits, 43–44, 62
labyrinth, 52–53, 54–55, 60
Lake Placid (film), 119
Lambert, Mary, 133
Landolt, Anna, 120, 123
Larrick, James, 69–70
Larsson, Hans, 196
Last Samurai, The (film), 216
Leonardo da Vinci, 21, 67
Leterrier, Louis, 76
Leviathan, 84, 85–88, 89, 91, 97
Lion King, The, 46
lions, 7–8, 12–13, 14–17, 22–
23, 35, 36, 41, 42–43, 44, 155
lizards, 70
Llosa, Luis, 77
Loch Ness monster, 90–91, 96n
Lonsdorf, Elizabeth, 73
Lord of the Rings, The (Tolkien), 28, 110
Lord of the Rings, The (films), 217
Lost World, The (Doyle), 184
Lotus-Eaters, 123
Lycaon, 155–56
Lycia, 44, 45
Madagascar, 26–27, 95
Mahabharata, 28
malaria, 205, 207
mammals, 104, 201
mammoths, 13–14, 194
Manticore, 33, 47
Marathon, 127
Marcellinus, Ammianus, 57–58, 59
Marean, Curtis, 95
Margaret, Saint, 99
Mars, 199–200
Mars Attacks! (film), 203
mastodons, 13–14
Matrix, The (film), 177, 178, 179–80
Maugantius, 124–25
Mayor, Adrienne, 14, 38, 116n
Medea, 99, 101–2
Medea (Euripides), 102
Mediterranean Sea, 44, 56, 59, 81, 82, 87
Medusa, 2, 3, 38, 63–64, 64, 67, 69, 73–76, 77, 119, 159, 165
Medusa, 74
Meno (Plato), 164
Merlin, 108, 111, 113, 123–24, 125–26
Mesopotamians, 15
Mesozoic era, 104
Messina, Strait of, 83, 84
Metamorphosis (Ovid), 76, 155–56
meteors, 201
methane, 112–13, 114
middens, 192–93
Middle Ages, 110, 211, 214
Middle East, 28, 29, 44, 100
Minos, 52, 53–54, 59–60, 61
Minotaur, 1, 2, 3–4, 6, 51–55, 53, 57, 60, 61, 62, 63, 159, 164, 173, 211
Mitchell, Jonathan, 70
Moki Indians, 117
Morales, Judith, 159
Morency, Louis-Philippe, 178–79
Mount Olympus, 121–22
Mozambique, 95
multicellularity, 200, 201
Nagini, 78
NASA, 199–200
National Park Service, 190
Nattier, Jean-Marc, 75, 75
natural gas vents, 110
Natural History Museum (London), 185–86
Nature, 49, 70, 95
Nature Geoscience, 30n, 59
Naturwissenschaften, 70
Nemean lion, 9–10, 12, 21, 27, 30, 31, 33, 35, 205, 213, 217
Neolithic Age, 112
Ness, Robert, 132
neurogenic shock, 68
Neurology, 151
New England Journal of Medicine, 19
New Jersey, 93
New York Times, 25
New Zealand, 25–27
Nightmare, The (Füssli), 120–21, 121, 123, 125, 130, 132
Nightmare on Elm Street (film), 134–35
North African Plate, 56–57
oceans, 79–98
octopus, 91
Odyssey (Homer), 43, 80–82, 124–25, 137