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.

Ancient Greek mythology includes stories of a fire-breathing creature called a chimera. This fearsome beast was a mix between a lion, goat, and serpent. But chimeras are not just a part of mythology.

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 ...