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Cold-Blooded Whatever: Cold-blooded creatures are treated like one big species.

Clone Angst: A clone angsts over the fact that they are a genetic duplicate of another person.

Absolutely no placenta or involuntary bowel movements.

Clean, Pretty Childbirth: Childbirth is quick and simple.

Clam Trap: Clams and other bivalves, especially giant clams, snap at people.

Clamshells as Mouths: Clams and other bivalves being depicted with the shells as jaws for speaking and eating.

Charles Atlas Superpower: Humans gain superhuman abilities through mundane training.

Cat Concerto: The yowling of a cat is not actually equivalent to human singing, but rather means that they're fighting or mating.

Casual Crucifixion: When one is crucified, especially if nailed through hands and feet, the results will be treated as Only a Flesh Wound, despite the hands and feet being the least fleshy parts of the human body.

Canine Confusion: A work portrays dogs, wolves, and related animals wrong.

Bones Do Not Belong There: Bones inside soft organs, or in species that don't have any.

Blown Upward by a Blowhole: Whales can blow object and animals with their blowholes.

Binomium ridiculus: Need a 'scientific' name for something? Just slap any old bit of Dog Latin on it, and you're good to go.

If someone eats so much that their actual stomach visibly expands them, this would probably make them throw up.

Balloon Belly: In real life, gaining weight because of food happens due to the body storing fat from it, which cannot happen immediately after eating.

Baby Language: In reality, the babbling of a baby is an attempt at actual speech, rather than a language in itself.

Ascended to Carnivorism: Herbivorous animals that eat meat.

Artificial Hybrid: Someone who was born one species, but turned into a hybrid.

Aquatic Sauropods: Sauropods (a type of dinosaur) living a semi- or wholly aquatic lifestyle.

Aquatic Hadrosaurs: Hadrosaurs (a type of dinosaur) living a semi-aquatic lifestyle.

Animals See in Monochrome: Animals, especially dogs and cats, see in black and white.

Animal Gender-Bender: Animals look or behave like the opposite sex from what they're meant to be.

Anatomically Impossible Sex: Sex that works in a biologically-impossible way.

Anachronistic Animal: In a work set in the past, animals that didn't exist then exist anyway.

Amazing Technicolor Wildlife: Animals with abnormal coloring.

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Amazing Technicolor Population: Humans with abnormal skin colors.Alpha and Beta Wolves: Wolves have a distinct hierarchy with a leader, a second-in-command, etc., often with titles named after Greek letters.All Genes Are Codominant: An interspecies hybrid baby ends up getting 50/50 genes.All Flyers Are Birds: Creatures that can fly, but aren't birds, do bird things.

All Animals Are Domesticated: Wild animals never get mad, or if they do, never dangerously so.All Animals Are Dogs: All animals behave the same way as dogs.It takes at least twenty-five breeding pairs to prevent the population from dying out due to complications caused by inbreeding. Adam and Eve Plot: Two individuals do not provide enough genetic variability to produce a viable population.AB Negative: Everyone has an uber-rare blood type.

Their snouts are also portrayed as expressive. Aardvark Trunks: Aardvarks, anteaters, echidnas, and pangolins depicted with flexible snouts much like the trunk of an elephant.90% of Your Brain: The myth that average people only use 10% of their brains.