Some of my favorite books are collections of the oddments of existence such as Wanley's Wonders of the Little World and The Queer, The Quaint, and The Quizzical. But, this morning I found out the the web is increasingly becoming a rich resource for these kinds of collections. Luckily there are people following in Wanley's footsteps! People such as Uri Westphal.
I stumbled across a collection of "Mutatoes" during my morning blog reading. (Don't worry, they aren't a bunch of vegetarian comic book heroes...)
The pictures are wonderful:
And then I started poking around the other pages on the site and found Retrozoology: a page dedicated to ancient and odd descriptions of animals like the Octopus.
The best thing about these web-based collections is that they often come with full color pictures as seen above and you can easily access them without having to trek all the way to the rare books section of your local library.
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