Animal Hybrids That You Possibly Didn’t Know Existed

Published on July 20, 2021
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Hippalectryon

Heading back to the Greek pantheon, the Hippalectryon is a hybrid between a horse and a rooster. According to Aristophanes, this creature is ‘so ugly that it invited much ridicule from people coming across this hybrid, which sent any bad away from life.’

Hippalectryon

Hippalectryon

Khepri

Appearing as a character from a comic book, the Khepri is based on Egyptian mythology and is depicted as a humanoid man with a beetle head. Other representations also show this creature with goat legs, but this isn’t very common.

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Khepri

Khepri