In Greek mythology, a chimera is a grotesque hybrid. But chimeras are not just tales. Here's how some scientists have been ...

The genes were injected during the mouse’s embryonic state and created a chimera, which is the term for an animal that sports two distinct sets of DNA.

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Scientists have engineered a hybrid mouse with a gene that predates all animal life. The team replaced a single gene in the mouse stem cells with a version from an ancient, single-celled ancestor ...

If so, the extinct whale would be the heaviest animal ever known to exist. The roughly 39-million-year-old behemoth, Perucetus colossus, is a type of cetacean, a group that includes modern whales ...

Muslims celebrate Eid al-Adha this weekend, which involves ritual animal sacrifice, something Chinese started performing in the Zhou dynasty.

The ancient Greeks had a remedy for burnout still practiced annually by their rural descendants. In the mountain village of Distomo, the “Koudounaraioi” - or "Bell People” - transform ...

These are the 14 most badass mythical creatures, including Bigfoot, the Abominable Snowman, the Loch Ness Monster, and more.

The North Korean archeologists didn’t find a magic unicorn lair belonging to an ancient king in Pyongyang. Don’t be stupid! No, they actually found the lair of the animal you are seeing above.

Colossal Biosciences has genetically engineered the first dire wolf to live in over 10,000 years. Here's what that means for other extinct species.

NEW YORK (AP) — There could be a new contender for heaviest animal to ever live. While today’s blue whale has long held the title, scientists have dug up fossils from an ancient giant that ...

THE ANCIENT GREEKS were good at inventing fantastical animals. The chimera, for instance, was “a thing of immortal make, not human, lion-fronted and snake behind, a goat in the middle”. It was ...