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ATT
K
APLAN
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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
algal organisms,
58–59
alien abduction,
198–99
Alzheimer’s disease,
158
Anatolia,
149
Andean condors,
25
Apollonius Rhodius,
101
Apsu,
100
aquatic tube worms,
58–59
Arcimboldo, Giuseppe,
21
Ariadne,
53
Arnold, Kathryn,
5
artificial intelligence,
176–81
Asimov, Isaac,
181
atavisms,
36
Athena,
65
Augustine, Saint,
124
Australia,
188–89
Avatar
(film),
214–18
backdraft,
119
Backdraft
(film),
119
Baho-li-kong-ya,
117
basilisk,
77–78
Battlestar Galactica
(TV show),
177
,
178
,
181
bearded vulture,
27
Benchley, Peter,
93–94
Benton, Michael,
40
berserkers,
145
Biomacromolecules,
168
n
Biotropica,
12
n
Birds, The
(film),
30
“Black Destroyer” (van Vogt),
207
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
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
cane beetles,
188–89
cane toads,
189
Capo Peloro,
82
Caravaggio, Michelangelo,
73
,
74
carbon,
58–59
Carthage,
105–7
Cellini, Benvenuto,
73
Cetus,
88
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
Chrysaor,
64
Clash of the Titans, The
(films),
76–77
,
88
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
(film),
210
Cohen, Rob,
115
color blindness,
72
n
colossal squids,
92–93
conjoined twins,
37
continental crust,
55–57
Cooper, Merian,
31
Cordyceps,
208
coyotes,
192
Craven, Wes,
134
crime,
160–61
Cuarón, Alfonso,
158
Cyclops,
14
dams,
189–91
Dances with Wolves
(film),
216
Darwin, Charles,
217
Datura stramonium,
147
Davis, Desmond,
76
Davis, Edmund Wade,
145–47
Day the Earth Stood Still, The
(film),
209–10