The Chimera comes from Greek mythology.  It is a a mixture od many creatures.  It has the head of a lion, body of a goat, tail of a serpent, and it breathes fire.  This creature is purely from legends and there has never been any actual sightings of it.

Chimera is thought to be  one of the offspring of Typhon and Echidna and sister of such monsters as Cerberus and the Lernaean Hydra.

We used information from the following books and web sites to help us write this page:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chimera_(mythology)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mythological_creatures_of_Class_of_the_Titans

http://hubpages.com/hub/Mythological-Creatures

http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Chimera_(mythology)

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