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  2. Chimera – Mythopedia

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    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.

  3. What is a chimera? - New Scientist

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    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.

  4. Bellerophon - Mythopedia

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    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 ...

  5. Exclusive: Two pigs engineered to have monkey cells born in China

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    More than 4000 embryos were implanted in sows. Ten piglets were born as a result, of which two were chimeras. All died within a week. In the chimeric piglets, multiple tissues – including in the ...

  6. Half human, half beast? - New Scientist

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    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 ...

  7. Human-pig chimeras are being grown – what will they let us do?

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    Isn’t creating pig-human chimeras a monstrous idea? It would indeed be monstrous if the result was some sort of half-pig, half-human being. The purpose, however, is to create pigs that are ...

  8. Echidna - Mythopedia

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    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.

  9. Pegasus - Mythopedia

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    The Chimera was a hybrid monster with a lion’s head in front, a serpent for a tail, and a fire-breathing goat head growing out of its middle. Bellerophon knew he would never stand a chance against the Chimera without some sort of divine assistance.

  10. Hydra - Mythopedia

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    The Hydra, also called the Lernean Hydra (because it lived near Lerna in Greece), was part of a brood of ancient mythical monsters. Its parents were the creatures Typhoeus and Echidna, and its siblings included other multi-headed beasts, such as Cerberus and the Chimera. The Hydra itself was a serpent with numerous heads (the exact number ...

  11. Orthus – Mythopedia

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    His siblings included Cerberus, the three-headed guard dog of the Underworld, who was captured by Heracles; the Hydra, a many-headed serpent, who, like Orthus, was slain by Heracles; and (possibly) the Chimera, a fire-breathing creature with the features of a goat, a lion, and a snake, who was killed by Bellerophon. Family Tree. Parents