A "pilgrim badge" from the Middle Ages featuring the design of a basilisk — a fearsome mythological creature akin to a dragon — has been discovered in southeast Poland. Such finds are rare and ...

Its circular outline encloses the shape of a mythical creature: the basilisk. Found over 100 miles from Warsaw, the newly discovered pilgrim’s badge probably “served as a kind of talisman ...

The green basilisk lizard is also called a plumed or double-crested basilisk; but its amazing ability to run on water gives this species its most recognizable moniker: the Jesus Christ lizard.