According to Isabel Beasley, an academic, there are only about 70 of these dark grey, snoutless creatures left in the entire Mekong basin.

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Roaches are nocturnal creatures who prefer their cramped, dark abodes under the refrigerator and inside the cracks between the kitchen cabinets.

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The Dark Woods are a hallucinogenic nightmare of scuttling creatures and pustulated swamps, while an interlude in "Fairyland" is pure kitsch but charmingly imaginative: Toadstools have eyes, and flower petals transform into fluttering butterflies.

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With last year's The Dark Knight, Warner Bros. once again managed to produce that rarest of Hollywood creatures: a billion-dollar blockbuster equally beloved by critics.

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The eyes of these creatures glided over the crowd as they rode on tongas, emerging untouched from dark streets where sewage flowed in the uncovered gutters, as prominent as targets in brightest-red silk, lipstick, gold.

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