Two millennia ago, a Lybian king has a basilisk (snake-shaped dragon), which petrifies people, subjected to the same fate with a golden scepter during a solar eclipse. Both these and several ...

But there is one thought experiment – briefly banned by the Internet forum where it was first posted – which you might regret reading about, known as "Roko's basilisk". Basilisks, as anyone ...

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.