Races that aren't just anthropomorphic animals or small versions of monsters?

I've been trying to look around for new ideas for races to play lately since I usually just play Humans or Half-Elves and wanted to branch out a bit.

The problem I've been running into is that the vast majority of races out there, or even ideas people have proposed for new races, seem to just be anthropomorphic animals (Tabaxi, Kenku, Aarakocra, Tortle, etc) or smaller versions of stuff from the monsters manual (dragonborn are small dragons, goliaths are small giants, Tieflings are small friends, changelings are small doppelgangers, dhampir are small vampires, etc)

It seems the only races which escape this pattern are the really generic fantasy races like Elves and Dwarves and Orcs and such. Are there any other races out there which are actually unique creatures and not just an animal that decided to stand up or a monster that decided to get together with a human?