What mythical creature is half lion and half eagle in the story?

What mythical creature is half lion and half eagle in the story? A gryphon.

The Gryphon appears in the later part of Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, where the Queen of Hearts orders Alice to meet him. He is a fantastical creature with the body and head of a lion combined with the wings and talons of an eagle, matching the traditional creature usually called a griffin or gryphon.

In Carroll’s story, the Gryphon is not presented as a fearsome monster. He acts as a companion to the Mock Turtle and helps Alice enter the Mock Turtle’s strange, melancholy account of his schooling and life beneath the sea. His behavior is playful, theatrical, and often nonsensical.

A common mix-up is spelling. “Gryphon” is the form used for Carroll’s character, while “griffin” is a widely used modern spelling for the legendary creature in general. The other options are different mythological beings: a unicorn is horse-like, a phoenix is a reborn fire bird, and a centaur combines a human with a horse.