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The "Set animal" aka sha, an ambiguous mammalian creature from ancient Egyptian iconography, never since identified with any extant or extinct species, likely never walked the earth.
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Creatures from Max Ernst's 1937 paintings "The Angel of Hearth and Home" and "The Triumph of Surrealism", notably the smaller creature on the left (more toothsome in the latter rendition)
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Mural by Leonora Carrington [source], strikingly similar to the recurring birdlike creatures of her collaborator Ernst. Animals and mythological creatures appear frequently in Carrington's work.
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Figbash, an ambiguous, faceless, pointy-headed black-silhouette-like creature created by Edward Gorey. Figbash does a lot of dancing and leaping around, posing with wildly pliant arms.
