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Sassanid bowl with sitting griffin, gilted silver, from Iran.. The griffin, griffon, or gryphon (Ancient Greek: γρύψ, romanized: grýps; Classical Latin: gryps or grypus; [1] Late and Medieval Latin: [2] gryphes, grypho etc.; Old French: griffon) is a legendary creature with the body, tail, and back legs of a lion, and the head and wings of an eagle with its talons on the front legs.
Accipitriformes is one of three major orders of birds of prey and includes the osprey, hawks, eagles, kites, and vultures. Falcons (Falconiformes) and owls (Strigiformes) are the other two major orders and are listed in other articles.
Accipitriformes, currently with 262 species and 75 genera in 4 extant families and possibly 1 extinct family, is the largest diurnal raptor order. DNA sequence analyses suggest that divergences within Accipitriformes began around the Eocene/Oligocene boundary about 34 mya, with the split of the group including genera Elanus and Gampsonyx from ...
The Saab auto company features a profiled griffin head in its logo. Saab Aerospace built a fighter jet, the JAS 39 Gripen, meaning "griffin" in Swedish. Scania, a Swedish truck and bus manufacturer, uses the griffin as its trademark. Sprecher Brewery features a heraldic black griffin in its logo. A cartoon griffin named Rooty appears on bottles ...
Griffin Callenreese, in the Japanese manga and anime series Banana Fish; Griffin Castillo, in the American television soap opera All My Children; Griffin Pierce-Taylor, in the Canadian television series Degrassi: The Next Generation; Griffin Turner, a character in Ninjago; Griffin Moss, one of the main characters of The Griffin and Sabine Saga
The Terrible Trio is a group of supervillains appearing in comic books published by DC Comics, first appearing in Detective Comics #253 (March 1958). [1] Individually known as Fox , Vulture , and Shark , their respective real names were originally Warren Lawford , Armand Lydecker , and Gunther Hardwick - though these have changed over the decades.
According to Celoria, the elements pha-and phe-in the names of Periphas and Phene can both be traced to the ancient Greek verb φαίνω (phaino), meaning 'to appear'. [2] According to Beekes it has no clear etymology, and its alternative spelling φίνις ( phínis ), points to a pre-Greek origin, which according to him is the most likely ...
A gryphon, or griffin, is a mythological creature with the body of a lion and head and wings of an eagle. Gryphon may also refer to: Arts, entertainment and media