Brainstorm - Creature Mechanic - Creature production - Ideas needed!

[Seriously Unserious]

How about also using the laboratory to unlock the hybrid creature types? to unlock say, a cyclotaur, you'd need to find a cow/bull and a cyclops type creature to perform the hybridization experiments, eventually culminating in the 2 creatures being combined into the hybrid form, in this case a cyclotaur, if there is a hybrid type that exists for those 2 creatures, otherwise the experiments simply fail.

Once unlocked, more can be created using the methods outlined above. If you can't find all the component creatures then you simply can't unlock that creature type in that way, or it could mean that not all creature types are available to all maps, so sometimes you can't use a cyclotaur for example because there are none on the map and one of the components to make them by experimenting is missing. Another map it may be some other creature that you can't make for this reason, so each map you have to be prepared to adjust your strategies according to what resources are available.