The federal government is planning to lift a moratorium on funding for research studying the effects of injecting animal embryos with human stem cells, creating half-human half-animal hybrids. The ...

The crab family just got a bunch of new cousins -- including a 95-million-year-old chimera species that will force scientists to rethink the definition of a crab. The crab family just got a bunch of ...

Q: Does the National Institutes of Health fund research on human-animal chimeras, or organisms that are part-human, part-other animal? A: With some exceptions, the NIH doesn’t fund research on ...

There is still a lot we don’t know about down in the depths of the oceans. The canyons and volcanoes shrouded in eternal darkness still harbor unknown species, possibly including an entirely new ...

Researchers from New Zealand's National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA) were responsible for the finding the specimen. The NIWA researchers found the chimaera, known as "ghost ...

Valparaiso, CHILE — For those of us who haven't had the pleasure of meeting the odd characters in Chile's newest marine protected area—the Nazca-Desventuradas National Park—here's your chance. The new ...

For the first time ever, two pigs with monkey cells were born in China after researchers genetically modified cynomolgus monkey cells in culture. The resulting chimera monkey-pigs—which are new ...

New Haven, Conn. - The crab family just got a bunch of new cousins -- including a 95-million-year-old chimera species that will force scientists to rethink the definition of a crab. An international ...