Griffins

The griffin, griffon, or gryphon (; Classical Latin: gryps or grypus; Late and Medieval Latin: gryphes, grypho etc.; Old French: griffon) is a legendary creature with the body, tail, and back legs of a lion, and the head and wings of an eagle with its talons on the front legs.

thumb|Roger délivrant Angélique (1824) by Louis-Édouard Rioult depicts the scene of [[Orlando Furioso where Ruggiero () rescues Angelica () while riding on a hippogriff.]] The hippogriff (Italian: ) or hippogryph is a legendary creature with the front half of an eagle and the hind half of a horse.

thumb|300px|Clockwise from left: Behemoth (on earth), Ziz (in sky), and [[Leviathan (under sea). From an illuminated manuscript, 13th century AD.]] The Ziz () is a giant griffin-like bird in Jewish mythology, said to be large enough to be able to block out the sun with its wingspan.

Roman triumphal column in Constantinople (Istanbul, Turkey)

thumb|Qazwini's depiction of the anqa in The Wonders of Creation Anqa (), also spelled ''''Anqa', or Anka, or Anqa Mughrib or Anqa al-Mughrib''' (), is a golden mysterious or fabulous female bird in pre-Islamic Arab mythology. She is said to fly far away and only appear once in ages. However, it is also said that she can be found at the place of the setting of the sun.

39th comic book in the Asterix series

fictional character from Alice in Wonderland

thumb|200px|A sea-griffin. The sea-griffin (German: Fischgreif; Polish: rybogryf, gryf morski) is a heraldic charge in form of an aquatic griffin with the head, upper half, wings, and talons of an eagle and the lower half of a fish.

building in Yusif Mammadaliyev Street Baku, Azerbaijan