Extraordinary Animals Revisited

This delightful book is the long-awaited greatly-expanded new edition of one of Dr Karl Shukers much-loved early volumes Extraordinary Animals Worldwide. It is a fascinating celebration of what used to be called romantic natural history examining a dazzling diversity of animal anomalies creatures of cryptozoology and all manner of other thought-provoking zoological revelations and continuing controversies down through the ages of wildlife discovery. Handsomely supplemented by a vista of enchanting Victorian engravings to evoke the spirit of the period from which the inspiration for this book is drawn Extraordinary Animals Revisited offers an enthralling introduction to a veritable menagerie of truly astonishing beasts: From singing dogs to serpent kings pseudo-plesiosaurs to quasi-octopuses hounds with two noses and birds with four wings the Sandwell Valleygator and New Mexicos medicine wolf cobras that crow and snake gods that dance giant solifugids and rodent colossi devil-birds and devil-pigs furry woodpeckers and marsupial hummingbirds archangel feathers and the scales of the Eden serpent scorpion-stones and elephant-pearls tales of the peacocks tail parachuting palm civets missing megapodes blue rhinoceroses glutinous globsters anomalous aardvarks a platypus from Colorado man-sized spiders from the Congo de Loyss lost Venezuelan ape Margates marine elephant a flying hedgehog called Tizzie-Wizzie a mellifluous mollusc called Molly Indias once (and future?) pink-headed duck the squeaking deathshead the vanquished bird-god of New Caledonia and much much more - all waiting to amaze and amuse a pageant of natural and unnatural history.