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Polyp and medusa are two stages in life cycle of cnidarians , polyp is hydra like and medusa is jelly fish like .
Scylla and Charybdis, Cerberus, Medusa(and the other Gorgons), and the Hydra come to mind...
minotaur,hydra,medusa,dragon,titans,furies,etc
It's called a hydra. Scylla and Medusa are quite interesting too.
No. Medusa is a Gorgon, she and her 2 sisters were cursed by Aphrodite so when they look at someone the person turns to stone
There are different stories on this; he either strangled it, or shot it with a specially created arrow.
A hydra has two body shapes. The first one is known as polyp which has tentacles and the other body form is known as medusa.
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a butterflies toung is as long as its body
No god killed Medusa, the hero Perseus killed Medusa with the guidance of Athena and Hermes. Pereseus did not have snakes for hair either, Medusa did. It was her punishment for laying with Poseidon in the Temple of Athena.
The Hydra was a fearful monster in Greek mythology with many heads. Whenever you cut one off, two more appeared in its place. Destroying the Hydra was one of the twelve labours that Hercules/Heracles was required to perform. To kill the monster, the heads were cut off, then the stumps were burned so that they could not grow back.