The impossible, three-headed monster of Ancient Greek mythology, the Chimaera, may have started off as a fantasy, but today, the word “chimera” can be used to refer to anything that seems impossible.

If you’re familiar with the word “chimera,” it’s probably from Greek mythology, where it refers to a fire-breathing, three-in-one monster — lion-like overall, with a goat’s head protruding from its ...

The Percy Jackson series is a popular introduction to Greek mythology, bringing classic characters and stories to a new audience. Echidna, known as the "mother of all monsters," plays a significant ...

In ancient Greece, chimeras were mythical monsters — part lion, part goat, and part snake. In addition to these interspecies animal chimeras, human–animal hybrids were common in Greek mythology; the ...

Scientists have created the first human-pig hybrid in the search for ways to grow human organs for transplantation. The so-called "chimera" - named after the hybrid creature in Greek mythology - was ...

Order and disorder might seem dichotomous conditions of a functioning system, yet both states can, in fact, exist simultaneously and durably within a system of oscillators, in what’s called a chimera ...