Mythological hybrid animal combining the physical features of a stag and a bird.
Mythological creature combining the physical features of a lion and an eagle.
The hippocampus or hippocamp (Ancient Greek: ἱππόκαμπος, from ἵππος, “horse” and κάμπος, “sea monster”), is a mythological creature shared by Phoenician, Etruscan, Pictish, Roman and Greek mythology, though its name has a Greek origin. The hippocampus has typically been depicted as having the upper body of a horse with the lower body of a fish.
A sphinx is a mythical creature depicted with the head of a woman, the body of a lion, and the wings of a bird. She is described in the myth and drama of Oedipus as a treacherous and merciless beast that threatened the city of Thebes, killing and devouring all those who did not correctly answer her riddle.
The jackalope is a mythical animal of North American folklore, in the category of fearsome critters, described as a jackrabbit with antelope horns.. The word jackalope is a portmanteau of jackrabbit and antelope (referring to the pronghorn or American antelope).
Krios Khrysomallos (greek, Κριος Χρυσομαλλος) was a fabulous, flying, golden-fleeced ram, sent by the cloud-nymphe Nephele to rescue her children Phrixos and Helle when they were about to be sacrificed to the gods. The ram carried Phrixos all the way to Kolkhis at the far end the Black Sea and then instructed the boy to sacrifice him to the gods and lay his fleece in the grove of Ares. Khrysomallos was afterwards placed amongst the stars as the constellation Aries.
