Dragons, mermaids, vampires...Those are old news! Let's talk about the lesser known Jewish creatures of the Mud Mice, Vegetable Men, and the Tree Geese...All of which sound as fantastical as they are! 

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Sacred Monsters: Mysterious and Mythical Creatures of Scripture, Talmud, and Midrash by Rabbi Dr. Natan Slifkin

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spontaneous_generation

https://www.sefaria.org/Otzar_Midrashim%2C_The_Aleph_Bet_of_ben_Sira%2C_The_Alphabet_of_ben_Sira%2C_(alternative_version).40?ven=Sefaria_Community_Translation&lang=bi&with=all&lang2=en

https://www.talmudology.com/jeremybrownmdgmailcom/2017/10/14/sanhedrin-91-spontaneous-generation-rbaf8

Wiki for Rashi & Bartenura

https://leimanlibrary.com/texts_of_publications/73.%20R.%20Israel%20Lipshutz%20and%20the%20Mouse%20That%20is%20Half%20Flesh%20and%20Half%20Earth.pdf

Abraham Ofir Shemesh

Title:

Religion vs. Science: The coping of Medieval and modern Rabbis (XIX-XXIst Centuries) with

the Question of the Existence of the Talmudic “Evolutionary Mouse”

Tree of Souls: The Mythology of Judaism, Howard Schwartz

Mythical Creatures in Rabbinic Literature: The Adnei Hasadeh and the Mud-Mice, by Michael Schechter (https://download.yutorah.org/2014/1053/813263.pdf )

https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/2534-barnacle-goose