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Does a chimera have special powers?

Not particularly, the Chimera is said to have three heads, the head of a lion, a goat, and a snake and that tends to be it. However, there are some versions in which one (or all) of the heads can breathe fire or the Chimera has wings.


What mythical monster had the body tail and hind legs of a lion and the head forelegs and wings of and eagle?

a chimera


What is a griffin and a chimera?

A griffin/gryphon is a mythical creature with a lion's body and the wings of an eagle. It's eagle-features may extend to it including an eagle's head and front claws as well as just the wings. A chimera/chimaera is rather ferociously a mixture between a lion (head), goat (body) and dragon (tail).


What can a lion with wings be called?

I believe its called a chimera (added later) actually, i believe a chimera also has the heads of a goat and snake/dragon. Though often confused with a griffin (which has both the wings AND head of an eagle) there is no other term for a winged lion.


Was Chimera nocturnal?

Was Chimera nocturnal


Is the chimera in the odessy?

yes the chimera is in the odessy


What creatures are chimera's made out of?

Nothing to do with 40k but Lion, Goat and Snake. Lion head and body, goat additional head and snake for a tail, sometimes they have eagle wings but not often.


Sentence work the word chimera?

Chimera is a mythological character that breathes fire. This is a sentence that uses the word chimera.


Out of these animals which ones have a horses body is it the unicorn and the chimera or the unicorn and the sphinx or the unicorn and the hippogriff?

Unicorns have a horse's body with a horn on their head. Hippogriffs usually have a horse's body and the rest is an eagle's head and wings. The Chimera, from Greek mythology, was a female monster with a goats body, the head of a male lion, and a tail ending in a serpents head. The term chimera is also used to describe a creature consisting of the parts of incongruous creatures.


Was the chimera male or female?

Chimera oddly enough was female.


Who killed the Chimera in Greek Mythology?

Bellaphron killed the chimera


In Yusef Komunyakaa's Camouflaging the Chimera what is a chimera?

A mythological creature.