ThirstyFish

You might remember the Chimera from Homer's Iliad: "A thing of immortal make, not human, lion-fronted and snake behind, a goat in the middle, and snorting out the breath of the terrible flame of bright fire". Well the Neo-Hittite Chimera depicted on this relief dated to 850-750 BC might actually be the basis for the Greek legend. This one differs from the Greek version in that there is a human head rising from the shoulders and has a bird-of-prey head on the tail. Housed in the Museum of Anatolian Civilizations, this relief is from Carchemish. Maybe Bellerophon killed the wrong Chimera?

If you think the Chimera only exists in mythology and the imagination, you're wrong! Scientists have already created human-nonhuman chimeras.