“Historians who renounce relevance in the cause of objective knowledge are only pursuing a chimera.”

“The chimeras are an extant group of about 30 species. They have the upper jaw fused with the cranium and a gill cover over the four-gill slits.”

“Bellerophon was commanded to destroy this monster, and with the assistance of the flying horse, Pegasus, he slew the chimera.”

“All at once, Bellerophon started as from a dream, and knew it to be the chimaera.”

“Several more deepwater sharks, three more rays, and one chimaera are also listed as Vulnerable.”

“Another friend, an alchemist, gave her a heart-shaped brooch depicting a fight between a griffon and a chimaera.”

“Another so-called chimerism involves using an animal egg to create human stem-cells.”

“Our failure to detect maize chromatin by in situ hybridization may be an indication of somatic instability and chimerism in these individuals.”

“Peripheral blood stem cell or bone marrow transplantation often leads to chimerism, wherein the patient possesses a mixed cell population.”

“In the living chimaeras, Callorhinchus and Chimaera, the authors were able to show the persisting boundaries between the individual teeth.”

“Like those distant relatives, chimaeras have skeletons of cartilage, not bone.”

“The feature was previously unknown in sharks and other chondrichthyans, an order of fish whose modern descendants include sharks, skates, rays, and chimaeras.”

“What kind of subjectivity can we assign to these chimeras, these fictions of a hopeful science?”

“Perhaps his most elegant experiment was to make aggregation chimeras of embryos from high, control, and low lines.”

“Scientists can create animals with the cells of other species, but are these chimeras medical marvels or high-tech monsters?”