Key Features

• A 120-foot-long Chinese parade dragon, used in New York City's Chinatown to perform the traditional dragon dance at the Lunar New Year
• A replica "Feejee mermaid," of the type made famous by showman P. T. Barnum, created by sewing the head and torso of a monkey to the tail of a fish
• A 17-foot-long dragon with a wingspan of over 19 feet
• A 10-foot-long European unicorn
• An 11-foot-long Roc with large, sharp talons swooping above the heads of visitors with a wingspan of nearly 20 feet
• A dramatic model of a kraken, whose 12-foot-long tentacles appear to rise out of the floor of the exhibition as if surfacing from the sea
• An over-6-foot-tall, extinct primate called Gigantopithecus
• The largest bird ever to have lived, the over-9-foot-tall, extinct Aepyornis
• Paintings and textiles, along with cultural objects from around the world that bring to light surprising similarities and differences in the ways people have been inspired by nature to envision and depict these strange and wonderful creatures