Arrowhead strider: more strange creatures concepts

The Venusian griffin (Venerian gryphon) - the strange creation having nothing in common neither with Venus, neither with griffins.

It is for the first time found by the lost research ship of People of Earth - because of depressurization all crew and all exemplars, except for the griffins who fell into a catatonia died. Data on their origin are lost, it is known only that they - vertebral, metabolic paths of which are suspiciously close to those at terrestrial animals.