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Draconcopedes (snake-feet) – "Snake-feet are large and powerful serpents, with faces very like those of human maidens and necks ending in serpent bodies" as described by Vincent of Beauvais. [7] Gajamina – A creature with the head of an elephant and body of a fish. Merlion – A creature with the head of a lion and the body of a fish.
This is a list of genetic hybrids which is limited to well documented cases of animals of differing species able to create hybrid offspring which may or may not be infertile. Hybrids should not be confused with genetic chimeras , such as that between sheep and goat known as the geep .
The most prominent hybrid in Hindu iconography is elephant-headed Ganesha, god of wisdom, knowledge and new beginnings. Both Nāga and Garuda are non-hybrid mythical animals (snake and bird, respectively) in their early attestations, but become partly human hybrids in later iconography.
Cipactli – Sea monster, crocodile-fish hybrid; Cipitio (Salvadoran folklore) Cirein cròin – Sea serpent; Coblynau – Little people and mine spirits; Cockatrice (Medieval Bestiaries) – Chicken-lizard hybrid; Cofgod – Cove god; Colo Colo – Rat-bird hybrid that can shapeshift into a serpent
The Gorgons of Greek myth were snake-women (a common hybrid) whose gaze would turn flesh into stone, the most famous of them being Medusa. [18] Nagas , "the demon cobra" [ 19 ] and naginis were human-headed snakes whose kings and queens who lived in jewel-encrusted underground or underwater paradises and who were perpetually at war with Garuda ...
Tiffany Corlis, a local author in Queensland, filmed an epic incident on her mobile phone, as a snake coiled itself around the crocodile while both were in the water and the snake at the crocodile ...
Taweret – depicted as a hippopotamus with lion paws and crocodile tail; Tefnut – Tutu – body of a striding, winged lion, the head of a human, other heads of hawks and crocodiles projecting from the body, and the tail of a serpent; Urit-en-kru – A lioness headed hippopatomus goddess; Griffin (Europe) Lamassu (Mesopotamian)
An extended description of the cocatriz by the 15th-century Spanish traveller in Egypt, Pedro Tafur, makes it clear that this refers to the Nile crocodile. [ 3 ] According to Alexander Neckam 's De naturis rerum (ca 1180), the basilisk ( basiliscus ) was the product of an egg laid by a rooster and incubated by a toad ; a snake might be ...