Perhaps it was some other creature, a beast unnamed and unknown.

NEWYORKER: The Yellow

Showers -- showers as we know it, the normal creature comforts, of course, are going to be unknown, very likely, to these people here, as well as the journalists following them, for the next few weeks.

CNN: Weaver: Creature comforts scarce, but soldiers get their mail

The eyes have lost the inlays of another unknown material that once were there, but they still glare, heightening the tension created by the creature's aggressive pose.

WSJ: The Imaginary Made Nearly Read | The Chimera of Arezzo | Masterpiece by Judith H. Dobrzynski