Every Strange Mythical Hybrid Creature Explained in 18 Minutes

Every Strange Mythical Hybrid Creature Explained in 18 Minutes

The Chimera is one of the oldest hybrid nightmares in recorded history, appearing in Homer's Iliad as a creature so wrong in its construction that the Greeks used its name to describe anything impossible or monstrous. It had the head of a lion, the body of a goat, and a tail that ended in a living serpent, and on top of all that, it breathed fire. Born from Typhon and Echidna, the two most prolific monster-parents in Greek mythology, the Chimera terrorized the region of Lycia until the hero Bellerophon was sent to kill it, arriving on the back of the winged horse Pegasus.