basilisk

Other animals, such as the modern green basilisk lizard, have tall, paddle-like tails that function more as social and sexual billboards than as swimming structures.

The catoblepas and, more famously, the basilisk, both described by Pliny the Elder, could kill with the single glance.

Mr. Musk laughed, agreeing, “Rococo basilisk is no joke!”

“Sometime on the third day,” he wrote, “I could again see rainforest colors and delight in the flight of a basilisk across a stream or the primeval look of a motmot in bamboo.”

The fortress is awash with hidden "Harry Potter" nuggets, like broomsticks, a toy basilisk, Hogwarts snow globe, and Fantastic Beasts-style trunk drawer.