The wampa, which attacked Luke Skywalker and his tauntaun mount on the planet Hoth in “Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back,” is a 10-foot-tall, bipedal carnivore.

There are a lot of reasons that we love Star Wars: it has laser noises. It has drunk aliens. It has flying motorcycles. But it wouldn’t be the same without its bizarre menagerie of nonsensical ...

Luke Skywalker's Hoth Gear uniform is displayed is displayed April 4, 2002 at the exhibit "Star Wars: The Magic of the Myth" at the Brooklyn Museum of Art in Brooklyn, New York.

The dianoga is a squid-like creature that makes its home in areas like swamps, sewers, and junkyards. When mature, it grows up to around ten meters (approximately 32 feet) and has seven long tentacle ...

When fans first saw the wampa in Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back, audiences were terrified of the beast that attempted to kill Luke Skywalker on Hoth, only for the Jedi to make a quick escape ...

The Star Wars comic series Star Wars: Darth Vader – Black White & Red has revealed a story that sees the dreaded Sith Lord return to an iconic place in the Star Wars Saga: the Rebel Alliance ...

After being attacked by the furry white beast known as a Wampa, Luke Skywalker finds himself hanging upside down within its cave, with the carnivorous animal seen chomping away at our hero's Tauntaun.

Here's how one of Star Wars' most iconic war ... as black dots against the planet Hoth’s snow-white ... at Cybernetic Zoo – an online menagerie of early robots and cyber-animal ...