In ancient Greek mythology, a Siren is a hybrid creature with the body of a bird and the head of a human. Sirens are traditionally understood to be female, but similar figures with beards can be ...

A remarkable mosaic floor depicting two human-animal hybrid spirits ... were considered to be wild creatures and were closely associated with Dionysus, the ancient Greek god of fertility, wine ...

The Chimera was a fearsome creature from Ancient Greece that was a mixture of animal features, said to inhabit Lycia in Asia Minor or Anatolia, Turkey. What features you ask? Well, take a lion, then ...

When we consider Greek art, we tend to envisage marble ... on Crete was decorated with frescoes of elegant griffins – hybrid creatures with the bodies of lions and the heads of birds of prey.

After the importation of these Near Eastern creatures, a new genre of beasts emerged as a popular form in Greek art. These hybrid creatures were incorporated into various aspects of Greek art: sirens ...

Monsters and hybrid creatures abound, magical transformations ... may be traced back at least as far as the Renaissance, when Greek and Roman stories and statues became the lifeblood of art ...

The species is being called Chimerarachne, a riff on Chimera, a fire-breathing hybrid creature found in Greek mythology. Paul Selden, Director of the Paleontological Institute at the University of ...

This new research field _ creating hybrid creatures out of different species _ is at the cutting edge of the biotech revolution and is called chimeric experimentation (after the monster of Greek ...

When we consider Greek art, we tend to envisage marble ... on Crete was decorated with frescoes of elegant griffins – hybrid creatures with the bodies of lions and the heads of birds of prey.