In Greek mythology, the chimera was a fire-breathing monster — part goat, part snake, part lion — that terrorized the people of Lycia before being slain by the hero Bellerophon. In biology, a chimera ...

One such creature was the chimera, a grotesque hybrid of a lion, goat, and snake. But chimeras are not only fairy tales or figments of an overactive ancient Greek imagination. A chimera is an ...