This is a slice of cartoonist Jim Unwin’s diagram of mythical creatures. Unwin, based out of South London, is also noted around the Internet for his “virtual collection” of chairs from The Incredibles and as the designer of the video game Little Big Planet. Full sized image at the link.
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daedonas
Great idea, but the design could be better, wouldn't mind seeing this with some more creatures and a finer detailed design 
Tempscire
Haha, I love the dog/dog/dog loop.
SlappyMcDoodle
I googled mermahuataur....nothing...
Gauldar
@SlappyMcDoodle
Did you put in the proper accents to represent the required throat vibrations necessary to properly pronounce that word?
Matt
I looked up Echidna. I got a picture of a hedgehog looking creature. It doesn't look very mythological to me.
jaxmickey
I can't believe they forgot about the Liger!!!! I'm soooo bummed
kam00n
Fun fact: This is actually an Euler diagram. Venn diagrams must show all possible intersections between all sets.
Reference:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euler_diagram
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venn_diagram
Okay, not that fun...
NinaZer0
Echidnas are Australian and not mythological, you silly British man. Think of it as the Antipodean version of a hedgehog, only much bigger and much cooler.
seekshelter
keep in mind that all of these animals do exist... and are on display at the Gaza Zoo..
Jessa
I don't think he knows what an echidna is at all ...
The Manticore
Echidna is perhaps best known as being the mother of many monsters, particularily with her union with Typhon. Her name means she-viper. Echidna was killed in her sleep by the hundred-eyed creature Argus.
She was depicted as having the head of a beautiful nymph, but the body of a serpent. The lives of her and her children were only spared so that they could be sport for future heroes.
Also MANTICORE NEEDS SCORPION TOO. >:|
The Manticore
oh yea, you may know her children better. Ladon, Hydra, Chimaera , Orthus, Cerberus, Sphinx, and the Nemean Lion were all her children from Typhon.
Dagonet
Strictly speaking, this is not a Venn diagram, which represents _all_ possible intersections available within a set, but an Euler diagram.
By any name, though, the diagram is great.
Video Game Dork
A cockatrice is more of a chicken than an eagle, really (hence the 'cock' in the name).
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