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Stinkin'link busters. See the dreaded Manticore here.

Evolution would predict that the Manticore is impossible. Can ID do that?

From the site:

Topsel gives no indication that he considers the Manticore to be an imaginary beast, which is hard to explain, given his reticence about some other fantastical creatures. ‘This beast or rather Monster... is bred among the Indians, having a treble row of teeth beneath and above, whose greatness, roughness, and feet are like a Lyons, his face and ears unto like a mans; his eyes gray, his colour red, his tail like the tail of a Scorpion, of the earth, armed with a sting, casting forth sharp pointed quils’
The Manticore, it is well known, has a fondness of human flesh, and Topsel claims that ‘although India be full of divers ravening Beasts, yet none of them are titled with a title of Anthropophagi, that is to say Man-eaters: except only this Mantichora’. His commitment to the idea that the Manticore is real is evident when he claims that ‘When the Indians take a Whelp of this Beast, they all to bruise the Buttocks and tail thereof, that so it may never be fit to bring sharp quils, afterwards it is tamed without peril.’