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Bird like-

Peryton - mythological hybrid animal combining the physical features of a stag and a bird.

Harpy- a female monster in the form of a bird with a human face

Huitzilopochtli - Blue human dressed in feathers

Owlman - Large human sized owl with red glowing eyes

Roc - Gigantic bird with a forked tongue

Stymphalian Bird - Large bird with bronze feathers, metal beak & claws

Gryphon- A legendary creature with the body, tail, and back legs of a lion; the head and wings of an eagle; and an eagle's talons as its front feet.

Hippogriffe - A legendary creature which has the front quarters of an eagle and the hindquarters of a horse.

Cockatrice - A flying part-rooster/part-snake that could kill with its stare.

Phoenix - The golden bird who, at the end of its life, burst into flames only to be reborn again.

Kongamato - Large bird with teeth, leathery skin and bat-like wings

Caladrius - Mythical snow-white bird

Thunderbird - A giant bird that creates storms with its wings.

Stymphalian Birds - man-eating birds with beaks of bronze and sharp metallic feathers they could launch at their victims.

Canine like-

Winged Wolf - wolves that are equipped with wings

Chamrosh - body of a dog with the head and wings of a bird.

Kitsune- Fox with many tails.
Cynocephalus - A member of an ancient race of men with the heads of dogs.

Fenrir - Gigantic wolf

Akhlut - An orca spirit that takes the form of a gigantic wolf or a wolf-orca hybrid when on land.

Kludde - Gigantic black dog with a blue flame around it's head

Amarok - Gigantic wolf that hunts alone
Black Dog - An evil spirit dog that stalks city streets at night.

Bray Road Beast - The nickname for a werewolf-like creature seen multiple times in Wisconsin.

Cerberus - The three-headed dog that guards the entrance to Hades.

Orthros - The two-headed monster dog.

Werewolf - Human by day, wolf by night.

Feline like-

Winged Lion- A Winged Lion

ball-tailed cat - A cat with similar traits to that of a mountain lion, except with an exceedingly long tail to which there is affixed a solid, bulbous mass for striking its prey

Nekomata - a kind of cat yōkai

Mngwa or Nunda - A gigantic, ferocious, dark gray or black nocturnal feline , said to stalk Tanzania . Described as, "the size of a donkey.

Tatzelwurm - a stubby, lizard-like creature. It takes the appearance of a cat with the hind-end of a serpent with no hind legs.
Manticore - A mythical beast with a lion's body and a human's head.

Nemean Lion - The giant lion with impenetrable hide who becomes the constellation Leo.

Sphinx - The half-human, half-lion that forces those it meets to answer its riddles, or die.

Mngwa - Oversized and out of control, deadly tabby cat

Sea creature like-

Mermaids - Sea creatures with the head and torso of a woman and the tail of a fish.

Sirens - In early Greek art, Sirens were represented as birds with large women's heads, bird feathers and scaly feet. Later, they were represented as female figures with the legs of birds, with or without wings, playing a variety of musical instruments, especially harps. The tenth-century Byzantine encyclopedia Suda says that from their chests up, Sirens had the form of sparrows, and below they were women or, alternatively, that they were little birds with women's faces.Birds were chosen because of their beautiful voices. Later Sirens were sometimes depicted as beautiful women, whose bodies, not only their voices, are seductive.

Kraken - Gigantic squid or octopus

Mokele-mbembe - Large water creature with a flexible and long neck

Ogopogo - Large sea serpent with horns and flippers

Kappa- Typically depicted as green, human-like beings with webbed hands and feet, with a turtle shell like carapace on its back.

Nian- A large Armored Tiger with horns.

Selkies: Seals who can take the human form when they take off their seal skin

Each-uisge - It usually takes the form of a horse, and is similar to the kelpie but far more vicious.

Kelpie (Water-horse) - It has usually been described as appearing as a horse, but is able to adopt human form. Some accounts state that the kelpie retains its hooves when appearing as a human.

Afanc- Its exact description varies; it is described variously as resembling a crocodile, beaver or dwarf-like creature, and is sometimes said to be a demon.

Abaia- a huge, magical eel in Melanesian mythology.

Aspidochelone - a fabled sea creature, variously described as a large whale or vast sea turtle, and a giant sea monster with huge spines on the ridge of its back.

Cirein Croin- large sea monster in Scottish Gaelic folklore.

Taniwha - At sea, a taniwha often appears as a whale or as quite a large shark;compare the Māori name for the Great white shark: mangō-taniwha. In inland waters, they may still be of whale-like dimensions, but look more like a gecko or a tuatara, having a row of spines along the back.

Reptile like-

Basilisk - a giant snake, an enormous lizard or a reptile with scaly wings and some features of a rooster like feathers, legs and head.

Amphisbaena - Snake with a head at each end

Jormungand - Enormous snake with huge fangs and a flat tail

Nāga- Human with a snake body from the torso down.

Lamia - Female human with a snake body from the torso down.

Cerastes - Large and extremely flexible serpent with horns

Dragon - Giant, flying, fire-breathing lizards who often guard treasure.

Echidna - The snake-woman who became the mother of most Greek monsters.

Hydra - The nine-headed serpent who grew two new heads for every one that was cut off.

Ladon (Python) - The snake that guarded the golden apples in the Garden of the Hesperides.

Loch Ness Monster - The elusive sea-monster from the Loch Ness in Scotland.

Insect/Arachnid like-

Antmen - Four weapon bearing arms, red eyes and a crushing jaw

Mothman - A winged creature in the shape of a man with hypnotic red eyes sighted in West Virginia.

Myrmekes - big size ants that can range in size from small dogs to giant bears which guarded a hill that had rich deposits of gold.

Myrmidons- ants which transformed into humans.

Tsuchigumo - .a race of spider-like yōkai.

Horse/bull/goat like-

Uchchaihshravas - a seven-headed flying horse

longma - a fabled winged horse with dragon scales.

Hippocampus - typically been depicted as having the upper body of a horse with the lower body of a fish.

Alicorn - The name for a winged unicorn.

Kelpie - Deadly shape-shifting water horse

Unicorn - A magical horse with a single horn on its forehead.

Satyr - Half-men, half-goats who were wild and lustful. The god Pan was one of these.

Centaur - Half-man, half-horse creatures that ran wild and unruly.

Minotaur - The creature with the head and legs of a bull and the torso of a man, who guarded the exit to The Labyrinth.

New Jersey Devil - A flying creature with a high-pitched scream and a horse-like head native to the New Jersey Pine Barrens.

Pegasus - Technically the proper name of Bellerophon's winged horse, which became the general name for winged horses.
Human like-

Vampire - Legend's most charming bloodsucker gets a whole section of this website all to itself.

Werewolf - a human being that uncontrollably transforms into a wolf during a full moon.

Aigamuxa - Human-like mythical creatures with eyes on their feet

Brownies - Small humanoid creatures wearing all brown clothing who sneak into homes at night to help with household chores.

Sasquatch - Large, hairy, man-like beasts that live in the woods.

Dwarf - A short, stalky humanoid who live in underground mining communities.

Elf - A race of pointy-eared humanoids who excel in magic and archery.

Gnome - A small, humanoid creature who lives and moves beneath the earth.

Imp - Small, mischievous creatures who liked to play pranks on people.

Hobgoblin - A type of Brownie who is inherently less helpful and more mischievous, even to the point of causing harm if antagonized.

Mutants - A term describing abnormal creatures created by genetic or environmental mutations.

Fairy/Spirit like-

Grim Reaper - The embodiment of death itself, the Grim Reaper comes to take your soul to the afterlife.

Fairy - A small, flying humanoid with magical abilities.

Pixie - A small humanoid creature with pointy ears who likes to cause mischief.

Sylph - An invisible, fairy-like being dedicated to the element of air.

Nymph - Divine female nature spirits who inhabit certain natural sites.

Sprite - A category of elemental, fairy-like spirits, invisible to humans (a Sylph is one of these).

Will-o'-the-wisp - Strange flame-like lights that seem to beckon travelers to follow.

Valkyries - Mythical Norse female divinities who choose heroes to die in battle and carry them to the great Valhalla.

Mammal like-

Chupacabra - Small bear-like, hairless beast with spikes

Erymanthian Boar - Huge wild boar with sharp teeth

Jackalope - A Hare with deer or antelope antlers and sometimes with wings.

Monster like-

Zombie - The living dead who feed on human flesh.
Gorgon - The snake-haired and snake-bodied humanoid that was created in its mother's image. Its stare could turn a person to stone. Medusa became one of these creatures in a later myth.
Golem - Magically animated human-shaped creatures typically made of solid stone

Banshee - A spirit appearing as a frenzied old woman whose high pitched shriek prophesied a death soon to come.

Camazotz - A giant, evil vampire bat demon

Bigfoot - A type of Sasquatch native to North American forests.

Abominable Snowman - Giant human-like body, white shaggy fur, big feet

Cyclops - The one-eyed giant who captured and ate people.

Ogre - An ugly, oversized humanoid creature with great physical strength and little intelligence.

Chimera - Part-lion, part-goat, part-snake - all monster.

Sea-Goat - The half-goat, half-fish who are the children of Pricus, who becomes the constellation Capricorn.