Classification: therianthropes.
Colloquial name: weres.
Origins: Like vampires and witches, weres have been theorised, by both the Collective and scientists from their own universe, to have been seeded among mankind as some sort of antibodies (likely as defenders against Vorsook inflitrators, given their resistance to the aliens' nanomachines and rapid therianthropic "reproduction" being reliant on humans).
Description: in human form, weres do not look any different from mundanes, though their tissue is denser and their bodies are inhumanly heavy for their size. They can also assume animal forms that resemble their natural counterparts and hybrid forms that look like anthropomorphic versions of their animals. It should be noted that, unlike our therianthropes, these weres only have the forms of predatory, carnivorous mammals (wolves, bears, big cats and weasels).
Behaviour: weres are often aggressive and confrontational, prone to outbursts when their beasts are trying to wrest control from them. In animal form, they share the traits of their natural counterparts, such as werewolves being social and forming large groups. They can also go against these instincts, however: male grizzly werebears have been known to live in groups and not kill their younger kind, for example.
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Threat level: local. Even in human form, weres are several times stronger than mundanes, able to kill athletic humans in one hit and withstand such attacks. They have been observed tearing apart genetically-enhanced superhumans, bending steel and shaking two-storey buildings as a side effect of clashing with physical peers in both animal and hybrid form. Were endurance allows them to shrug off and heal from wounds that would have killed any human, as well as live for up to two centuries. They possess enhanced reflexes (several times faster than humans, with stronger weres approaching the speed of older vampires) and senses, likely including thermal sight.
Collaboration: treating weres as humans with anger issues is useful when dealing with those who have a certain amount of control over themselves. Otherwise, standard therianthrope liaising protocols apply; we can ignore them as easily as we can pay them off with the trinkets or distractions they consider wealth and pleasure.
Neutralisation: silver is unnecessary when dealing with these therianthropes, as, unlike our weres, sufficient damage of any kind can cripple or kill them. Every reptilian is expected to be capable of defeating any number of such weres without need for equipment.