But in 2005, on the eve of the 134th version of the oldest championship in golf, the limelight has shifted away from nine-time modern major winner Tiger Woods to a much more ancient creature - the great and unique Golden Bear.
But after a lifeboat rescue, the endearing creature - which looks like a giant head, and has a parrot-like beak, no tail and two giant dorsal fins - is settling down to life at the Blue Planet Aquarium in Ellesmere Port, Cheshire.
On film Branagh cast him as Bardolph in Henry V (1989), as Stephen Fry's father in the comedy Peter's Friends (1992), Don Leonato in Much Ado About Nothing (1993), the blind grandfather - playing opposite Robert De Niro's Creature - in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1994).
The cheapest versions won't have air-conditioning or power steering, but Tata hopes its cute looks will make up for missing creature comforts--just as happened with the VW Beetle and the Mini long before it.
The result of this quest -- a gruesome creature with supernatural strength -- turns into a murderer and forces Dr. Frankenstein to try to destroy his creation.
Researchers said the 165-million-year-old creature was distantly related to modern-day crocodiles.
James Durbin -- that mythical creature with the tail from season 10 -- returned with blonde ambition to scream "Higher Than Heaven, " off his debut album Memories of a Broken Disaster.
In a clearing, I finally saw it: a prehistoric-looking creature almost 2m tall with a bulky grey body, armour-plated skin, robust legs and hooked horn.
To achieve that, the engineers will have to include multiple cell types and devise a system that allows the lab-built creature to sense its environment and use an internal "decision-making circuit" to pick different behaviors.
And they've made two remarkable leaps of their own -- back to hand-drawn animation, although with elaborate computer assists, and away from talking-creature cuteness.
What could be more fitting, after all, for a city named after a creature that self-immolates and then rises out of its own ashes?
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The century-old homestead cabins have been gussied up with every creature comfort a 21st-century dweller could hope for: heated floors, rain showers, soft linens, and, for better or worse, speedy Wi-Fi.
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Nada Surf has been plugging away since the mid-'90s, beginning as an alt-rock one-hit wonder (with the novelty song "Popular") and ultimately morphing into a rare creature: an indie-pop band that traffics in uplift and empathy.
Still, even with these interventions, the GL feels large, lane-spanning and tall, a creature of barely constrained momentum whose road-holding is never entirely convincing.
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The mongoose-like creature has been called Durrell's vontsira (Salanoia durrelli) in honour of conservationist Gerald Durrell.
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They include a scorpion the size of a small suitcase, and a jackal-like creature with an exposed rib cage.
He also was behind "The Golden Voyage of Sinbad, " where a one-eyed centaur battles a part-lion, part-eagle creature known as a griffin.
Because of these restrictions, the future of this critically-endangered creature looks bright.
Head Gardener Gary Long had a glimpse of a "very large black cat-like creature" and now believes it could have been the 'Beast'.
Still, nobody wants to get caught sticking the head on the wrong end of the creature, even if--as with Cope's long-necked plesiosaur--it looks as if it belongs there.
In June 2011, a large black cat-like creature was sighted at Trewithen Gardens, near Truro, leading some to believe it could have been the 'beast of Bodmin'.
What Dr Nedelcu and Dr Michod did was to look for an antecedent of regA in a single-celled creature, in order to find out what its job was.
Sam Worthington, as the mighty Perseus (otherwise known as the dude who slayed the Kraken), takes on a two-headed griffin-like creature that trashes a village with its incendiary breath.
These DNA investigations had indicated that eutherians should have been in existence much earlier than the previous oldest-known eutherian fossil - a creature called Eomaia, which lived about 125 million years ago.
In "Spore, " players make choices that evolve a creature from single cell--you cover the first 20 million years pretty quickly--to planet-hopping spaceship pilot, all with Pixar-quality cartoon brilliance of critters and landscape.
He and South African shark expert Craig Ferreira have teamed up with the crew of a Padstow fishing boat to search for a great white shark - the creature made infamous by the Hollywood blockbuster Jaws.
Cut the Rope offers another simple idea (slicing a rope holding a cute frog-like creature so it can eat snacks), with lovely graphics and puzzles that are just hard enough to be gratifying when you solve them.
And we just found all these vegetables at the grocery store and simply added black-eyed peas, and it brings them to life, it creates an other-worldly creature, and we have a whole chapter on it in the book.
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