Chimera – Mythopedia The Chimera also breathed fire, though Hesiod and later writers specified that it was only the goat’s head (the middle one) that held this power Iconography In the visual arts, the Chimera was commonly represented with the head of a lion in front, the head of a goat in the middle, and a serpent tail
What is a chimera? - New Scientist A chimera is an individual whose body is composed of cells that are genetically distinct, as if they are from different individuals – and sometimes they really are from different individuals
Bellerophon - Mythopedia Bellerophon Slays the Chimera Bellerophon’s most glorious moment was probably his battle with the Chimera The Chimera was a monster combining the features of a goat, a lion, and a snake It had multiple heads, one of which breathed fire Iobates, the king of Lycia in Anatolia, had been told (falsely) that Bellerophon had tried to rape his
Plant skin grafts could result in new kinds of vegetables Very occasionally, a shoot arises from the junction between grafted plants that is a strange mix of the two – called a graft chimera – with the outer layer of one plant and the insides of another
Cloned chickens on the menu - New Scientist Strictly speaking a chimera isn’t a clone, because it contains cells from both donor and recipient But Fitzgerald says it will be enough if, say, 95 per cent of a chicken’s body develops from
Echidna - Mythopedia Echidna was a primeval female monster, usually represented as a woman from the waist up and a snake from the waist down She was said to have been the mother of some of the most fearsome monsters of Greek myth, including Cerberus, the Chimera, and the Hydra
The boy whose blood has no father - New Scientist IN THE closest thing to a human virgin birth that modern science has ever recorded, British geneticists last week described the remarkable case of a young boy whose body is derived in part from an
Half human, half beast? - New Scientist Perhaps it is the inherent “unnaturalness” of the chimera that makes people bristle at it; perhaps mixing animals and humans violates some fundamental moral taboo On the other hand, our
Minotaur Name Generator Dungeons Dragons - Mythopedia Minotaurs in Dungeons Dragons are a great reminder that just because you can, doesn’t mean you should (looking at you, Mogis) Sporting bull-like heads atop brawny human bodies and often brandishing fearsome horns etched with runes of power, these hulking chimera aren’t exactly the first things you want to run into in a dark Phoberos alley