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** [[Fridge Brilliance|Freshwater spring, saltwater sealife]].
* Plenty of ''[[Berserk]]'''s Apostles and other monsters can be described as these, ranging from Zodd (Bull/tiger/ape) to the ogres (giant humanoids with sperm whale snouts and elephant tusks) to the trolls (Rat/monkey/pig). Then there's the Pisacha, they look like those sea monsters from old sea maps, with elephant trunks, made by mutating a whale.
** There also happened to be a kelpie (mythological water horses known for luring and drowning their victims) that looked like a cross between a horse and a toad - https://web.archive.org/web/20140903221102/http://manga.animea.net/berserk-chapter-25-page-101.html
* ''[[Inuyasha]]'' is practically MADE of this trope; most of the [[Airborne Mook|low-level demons]] are serpents or arthropods.
* ''[[Beast Wars]]'', ''[[Beast Wars II]]'', and ''[[Beast Wars Neo]]'' features several mix/hybrid critters as alt-modes.
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* ''The Wingdingdilly'', which is about a dog that was turned into a chimera as a result of a magic spell cast upon him by a witch.
* The [[Dr. Seuss]] book ''Horton Hatches the Egg'' ends with the egg [[Horton Hears a Who!|Horton the Elephant]] was taking care of [[Whale Egg|hatching into a tiny elephant with wings]].
* Although the main character of [[The Chronicles of Professor Jack Baling]] initially assumes the insect/shrimp creature at the end of the second episode is the combination of several different animals, it’s actually just a modified mantis shrimp [
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* [[The Jersey Devil]].
* The [[Ars Goetia]] portrays many of the demons bound by Ham and Solomon as manifesting in this way. Examples are Zagan and Haagenti (gryphon-winged bulls...although how you're supposed to tell those are gryphon wings and not eagle wings [[Fridge Logic|is anyone's guess]]), Marchosias (she-wolf with a snake's tail and gryphon wings), and Ipos (lion with a goose's feet and head and a hare's tail).
* In German, there's the common term of the ''Eierlegende Wollmilchsau'' or ''egg laying wool-milk-sow'', the holy grail of farmers and by extension any manufacturing business. One animal (or product) that produces absolutely everything and adresses anything the customer might wish for. Some people [https://web.archive.org/web/20140327125518/http://whichboxmedia.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/coolstory3/eierlegende_wollmilchsau.jpg made pictures of it].
* The worst of all? The Tarasque. It had the head of a lion, the body of a bull, the shell of a tortoise covered in spikes, six bear legs, and the tail of a serpent with a fish's fin. Doesn't much look like its [[Dungeons & Dragons|D&D]] counterpart.
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*** Tanaconda (''Tanystropheus'' + anaconda)
*** Velociraptoryx (''Velociraptor'' + ''Archaeopteryx'')" (Huh. [[wikipedia:Rahonavis|You don't say...]])
*** And the impressively ridiculous "Ultimasaurus", which is essentially the most fearsome parts of every nonhuman ''[[Jurassic Park]]'' resident combined. The toy was never produced, but fanart of the critter can be seen in Iririv's gallery below and [http://fav.me/d2np75e here]{{Dead link}}.
** Finally, someone was nice enough to devote [http://iririv.deviantart.com/art/Chaos-effect-collection-144644233 a deviantART page] to the overlooked toy series.
* ''[[Bionicle]]'' had the Rahi Nui, a critter who we only know by its description, since it was never released as a toy. Nevertheless, the animals that make it up were available at one time, so we can guess what it might look like: its head is that of a Kane-Ra bull, it has the body and back legs of a Muaka tiger ([[Fridge Logic|which doesn't actually have back legs]]), the powerful arms of a Tarakava lizard, the wings of a Nui-Rama wasp and the stinger tail of a Nui-Jaga scorpion.
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** In a later strip, Roy questions the existence of a [[Somewhere a Paleontologist Is Crying|brontosaurus]], and is told that if gryphons can exist, why not an apatosaurus with the head of a camarasaurus?
* ''[[Beyond the Canopy]]'' has spider crabs which (unlike [[Real Life]] spider crabs) are giant spiders with crab claws. There's also a brief appearance by deer that have small trees in place of antlers.
* In ''[[Shan Shan|The Adventures of Shan Shan]]'', [https://web.archive.org/web/20140128005212/http://shanshan.upperrealms.com/view.php?pageid=026&chapterid=1 a winged lion].
* ''[[Mountain Time]]'' has recurring snailbear, whose presence somehow induces [[Fauxlosophic Narration]] in those in the same panel.
** Also on [http://mountaincomics.com/comic/asuncion/ Asuncion] page:
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* In a somewhat similar vein to the above example, the [[Furry Fandom]] roleplay City of Unity has this as a major plot point; As maintained by the [[People's Republic of Tyranny|Orwellian]] government, Hybrids, or Uni-Class, (50/50 mix of two species) are held as the next step in evolution over the purebred Outer Class. (single species)
* [http://humandescent.deviantart.com/ HumanDescent] on deviantart.com loves doing digital manipulations of this nature.
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20130811024504/http://zoofights.squarespace.com/ ZOOFIGHTS] features a few of these, notably the infamous SwanMass (it kept absorbing things and just wouldn't die) and [http://zoofights.squarespace.com/display/ShowImage?imageUrl=/storage/round1_fight7/zoofights%20heart%20of%20darkness%202.jpg?__SQUARESPACE_CACHEVERSION=1269275079771 Heart of Darkness]{{Dead link}}/[http://zoofights.squarespace.com/display/ShowImage?imageUrl=/storage/zoofights4_images/losers_r1_f4/Hyperfauna.jpg?__SQUARESPACE_CACHEVERSION=1269858258233 Hyperfauna]{{Dead link}} (who might ''also'' be SwanMass).
* [[Rather Good]] Flash animation [http://www.rathergood.com/zoology "Zoology Dragon"] that is about a Dragon that combines animals... Into cubes.
* A few more gems from [[Deviant ART]]:
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** [http://adonihs.deviantart.com/art/Splice-Contest-BULL-SHARK-165048157 Bulldog-Shark]
** [http://fav.me/dz9wsr The mighty Llamalion!]
** [http://dragoness77.deviantart.com/art/Abomination-100826184 And the Abomination]{{Dead link}} (Horse, elephant, tiger, rhinoceros, deer, crocodile, parrot, babboon, rabbit and buffalo)
** Chalicothere is fond of canine/fish hybrids like the [http://fav.me/d1zabij Moray Corgi]
** [http://fav.me/d1wbqqb The Dogbunnyfroglemur]
** [http://fav.me/d23ogv9 Dolphidile (dolphin/crocodile), cockager (tiger/cockatoo) and ralk (rabbit/elk)]{{Dead link}}
** [http://fav.me/d1755r6 The magnificent Elephenguin]!
** A whole menagerie of Platypus hybrids: [http://fav.me/d2dt3kg Platypantheree]{{Dead link}}, [http://fav.me/d1jb85t the platypillar] (itself from the hybrid-happy [[Thomas Tapir]]), and the spectacular [http://fav.me/d1yabg9 Dragifforse] (dragonfly, horse, giraffe, antelope, ostrich, cheetah, platypus, centaur, and more)
** The fearsomeness on legs [http://fav.me/d1vbsi7 Antshark]
** [http://fav.me/d2zzfy1 Crocoraffe (crocodile/giraffe)]
** Hellraptor has made a lot of these, including [http://fav.me/d2kfbtd the Spinosaur-Alien]{{Dead link}} and a [http://fav.me/d34vr8s Tyrannosaurus/spider/scariest parts of everything ever hybrid]{{Dead link}}
** [http://fav.me/d2txsiz Dragon/Tiger/Rooster/Horse]
** [http://fav.me/dh7sp9 The ever-popular Butterfrog]
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** [http://fav.me/d307e6m Pandafox]
** [http://fc05.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2010/210/6/1/Crux_fanart_by_WhiteRoo.jpg Cruxes] are a somewhat less straightforward example, though still considered "hybrids".
** The almost-inevitable [http://fav.me/d46nm7o Spinohog!]{{Dead link}}
** A very different take on the [http://fav.me/d1ypj26 Ultimasaurus concept]{{Dead link}} (see "Toys" above)
*** And on the [http://fav.me/d2qukn9 Duckbunny]...
** What little girl wouldn't want a [http://fav.me/d1qa846 My Little Caterpony]?
** Behold, the beautiful [http://fav.me/d2rti5v Pegaceratops]{{Dead link}}!
** And the glorious [http://fav.me/d2vw0wi Pavotaur]!
** And the magnificent [http://fav.me/d3e3hro Sheenicorn]!
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** [[wikipedia:Notosuchia|Anatosuchus]], a small extinct crocodile with an unusually broad snout has since, rather cheekily, been nicknamed the "Crocoduck".
** Also cheekily, the gag Golden Crocoduck Award is now granted to whichever creationist whackjob is caught on film making the year's stupidest argument against evolution.
* Some biologists hypothesize that some animals that undergo metamorphosis do so due to hybridization in their evolutionary past eg. [https://web.archive.org/web/20110613040313/http://www.americanscientist.org/my_amsci/restricted.aspx?act=pdf&id=13825705089663 Luidia sarsi] a "jellyfish" that becomes a starfish.
** A "jellyfish" is not any animal that happens to be transparent—that larvae has bilateral symmetry and three tissue layers for crying out loud! The only scientist who has this point of view is Williamson and it is increasingly likely that he's a crackpot - see the [http://snipurl.com/y387o review]{{Dead link}} of "The Origins of Larvae" by Greg Rouse.
* Sheep-goat chimeras can actually live and they indeed look like both sheep and goat.
** And camel-llamas (camas)
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