I have heard from some Amarnites that there were widespread reports of hybrid creatures produced from the crossbreeding of different species of animals, or even humans and animals, in antiquity and medieval times. Certainly this is represented well by mythological creatures such as the Chimera (which has become shorthand for such hybrids) or the Manticore, or Griffon, or Hippocamp, or even Dragons themselves, but I think some classical authors treat such beasts as real historical monsters cooked up somewhere.
For obvious reasons, scientists tend not to spend a lot of time trying to create hybrids between different species, because it would usually not work. But I remember as a little kid seeing videos of human-pig hybrids or human-monkey hybrids in a lab in China somewhere, where ethics are less of a concern. But they have also created hybrid humans and pigs in the west only as foetuses
Joe Rogan talks about china creating monkeypigs
Chimeras in biology refer to animals with cells from two different animals. I think this is what they are doing with the monkey pigs and that sort of thing, but it would be more reasonable to combine different sections of the DNA of the animals. I suspect through sheer luck such chimera beasts may have occurred even with no technology in the past.
en.wikipedia.org
Maybe even sewing animal body parts one onto another frankenstein style. Who knows.
Do any of you know about this stuff?
For obvious reasons, scientists tend not to spend a lot of time trying to create hybrids between different species, because it would usually not work. But I remember as a little kid seeing videos of human-pig hybrids or human-monkey hybrids in a lab in China somewhere, where ethics are less of a concern. But they have also created hybrid humans and pigs in the west only as foetuses
Chimeras in biology refer to animals with cells from two different animals. I think this is what they are doing with the monkey pigs and that sort of thing, but it would be more reasonable to combine different sections of the DNA of the animals. I suspect through sheer luck such chimera beasts may have occurred even with no technology in the past.
Cynocephaly - Wikipedia
Maybe even sewing animal body parts one onto another frankenstein style. Who knows.
Do any of you know about this stuff?
