Greek mythology features several dragons, but is there any evidence that these mythical monsters were based on real creatures?

The heroes are the best-known part of Greek mythology, but what makes a hero ... bodies”, I was willing to make an exception. 10) The Hydra Perhaps the most famous monster Hercules ever battled ...

It wasn't written in Haight Ashbury or Kathmandu or even Goa, but on Hydra. Like its nine-headed namesake of Greek mythology, this tiny Aegean isle first inhabited 3000 years BC is multi-faceted ...

Although the result is infinitely less terrifying than the gigantic, many-headed monster of Greek mythology, scientists have succeeded in coaxing the real-life Hydra, a tiny freshwater polyp ...