Creatures that make interesting zombies

[EldonGuyre]

I'm going to be using a lot of zombies and skeletons in a campaign I've recently begun. It's set in the ruins of a truly ancient city lost in a jungle. Most undead will be the standard human(oid), but I'll be using odd ones, too. Not long ago, the party had to deal with a skeleton dire lion. It was scary!

What other creatures make for interesting skeletons, zombies, or variants of them?

[blahpers]

Can't go wrong with T-rex.

[EldonGuyre]

blahpers wrote:

Can't go wrong with T-rex.

Yeah, a zombie t-rex is terrifying!

[Java Man]

Some that I have enjoyed running or fighting: skeletal rat swarm, zombie giant bugs, troll skele, bloody skeletons covered in padding and leather body suits to diaguise (maybe not helpful for ancient ruins), zombie giant vultures, and a "zombie" treant that I once brewed up.

[TheGreatWot]

Dragons make nice zombies. A big, scary, majestic creature turned into a ravenous undead.

[avr]

Wyverns. Like dragons but they don't have magic abilities to lose as a zombie.

Hydras are high-quality undead minions.