Mythical Animals
These animals possess some fantastic attribute.
- Amphisbaena, a snake with two heads, one at each end of the body
- Arion, the immortal horse of Adrastus
- Balius and Xanthus, the immortal horses of Achilles
- Calydonian Boar, a gigantic boar sent by Artemis to ravage Calydon and slain in the Calydonian Boar Hunt
- Ceryneian Hind, an enormous deer which was sacred to Artemis; Heracles was sent to retrieve it as one of his labours
- Chrysomallus, a flying, talking, golden-fleeced ram
- Cretan Bull, the bull which impregnated Pasiphaë, resulting in the Minotaur
- Erymanthian Boar, a gigantic boar which Heracles was sent to retrieve as one of his labours
- Karkinos, a giant crab which fought Heracles alongside the Hydra
- Laelaps, a dog destined always to catch its prey
- Mares of Diomedes, four man-eating horses belonging to the giant Diomedes
- Nemean Lion, a gigantic lion whose skin was impervious to weapons; it was strangled by Heracles
- Pegasus, a divine winged horse
- Phoenix, golden-red birds that could regenerate themselves or reproduce by bursting into flames and rising from the ashes
- Stymphalian Birds, man-eating birds with beaks of bronze and sharp metallic feathers they could launch at their victims
- Teumessian fox, a gigantic fox destined never to be caught
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