chimera

In Greek mythology, a fire-breathing animal with a lion's head and foreparts, a goat's middle, a dragon's rear, and a tail in the form of a snake; hence any apparent hybrid of two or more creatures. The chimera was killed by the hero Bellerophon on the winged horse Pegasus.

Artistic representations sometimes show the beast with a goat's head rising from its back. The origin of the myth may be linked to a volcano of the same name near Phaselis in Lycia.