UIG5327065 Lupus Marinus Lupus Scythius : This creature looks a bit like a lion with a baboon\'s nose and mane well-tamed by conditioner. ""Lupus,"" however, suggests that it\'s a wolf. ""Scythicus"" suggests it\'s from Scythia. A massive steppe that stretched from the northern shores of the Black Sea, past the Caspian Sea, to the mountains around the Taklimakan Desert. Scythia was likely characterized simply as an exotic, far-off land with weird people and animals. No wonder a Scythian wolf might look feline. Renaissance Woodcut monsters. From the 1642 book Monstrorum Historia by Ulisse Aldrovandi (Bologna, 1522-1605). He is considered the founder of modern Natural History., Ulisse Aldrovandi, 1642 穢Buyenlarge/UIG/Leemage.