 The Myrmecoleon was a mythical ant-lion hybrid written about in the 2nd century AD Physiologus, where animal descriptions were paired with Christian morals. The ant-lion as described was said to starve to death because of its dual nature – the lion nature of the father could only eat meat, but the ant half from the mother could only eat grain chaff, thus the offspring could not eat either and would starve. It was paired with the Biblical verse Matthew 5: 37 The fictional ant-lion of Physiologus is probably derived from a misreading of Job 4: 11.
