The Hydra which lived in the swamps near to the ancient city of Lerna in Argolis, was a terrifying monster which like the Nemean lion was the offspring of Echidna (half maiden - half serpent), and ...

Micscape Magazine for enthusiast microscopy ... Hydras can also reproduce sexually. The green hydra is hermaphroditic, meaning that male and female organs (gonads) are located on the same animal.

Greek Mythology- The Hydra had 9 heads, and the middle one was immortal. Hercules fought the Hydra with his club, but each time he knocked off a head, two more would grow back.

The swamps of Lerna was home of the Hydra, an enormous water snake with nine heads (one of which was immortal), and with breath that would kill on contact.

Information about the Hydra. ... Said to lurk in swamps and other such watery realms, the Hydra was a grotesque creature, the offspring of Typhon (or Typhoeus) and Echidna, with at least seven

Official Hydra website. Hydra island in Greece in the Saronikos gulf. ... How to go to Hydra; With car in 2 hours and 30 minutes; Schedules Metochi-Hydra each hour until the end of September with 6 €

Perhaps the best-known hydrozoan, familiar to most students of introductory biology, is Hydra, pictured at left.

Hydra, also called the serpent of Lerna, was a beast with the body of a hound and 100 serpentine heads. ... In between Hydra, Antlia and Pyxis, he drew a little cat and named it Felis. However,

The second labor of Hercules was to kill the Lernean Hydra. From the murky waters of the swamps near a place called Lerna, the hydra would rise up and terrorize the countryside.

The story behind the name: The constellation Hydra is most closely associated with the legend of the second labor of Heracles, which may echo a Babylonian legend in which the hero Gilgamesh killed...