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[thetownfetus]

 Chimeras have been mentioned before in posts such as this one, but no one has mentioned interspecies chimeras involving animals, but they do exist! In 1984, scientists fused an embryo of a sheep with an embryo of a goat, and created a creature in which some cells have the DNA and features of a goat, and some have the DNA and features of a sheep.

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[shadsdf]

Something really, REALLY doesn't look right with that second picture due to the way the legs are bending.

[grygon]

doesn't look off to me... the little one is pronking (jumping where all fours leave the ground at the same time and come back down at the same time). considering how high the front legs are, i would say the back legs are in normal position.

[catnip_martini]

THAT IS COOL. Lol, I'm a bit nuts about chimaeras and hybrids and all manner of crazy stuff like that.

It's like when they created the silkworm/spider chimaeras; they're different but still pretty far out.

(Btw I dig your username.)

Cate

[sithwitch13]

This makes me wish I could find pictures of the chicken/turtle that I heard about in an embryology discussion several years ago. The gist of it was that a chicken embryo's wing bud was removed and replaced with a turtle's flipper bud fairly early on into development. The chicken was born with a completely normal chicken wing despite that--except that it was covered in turtle skin.

[viperine]

bizarre

[bethanthepurple]

Jelly-mouse ftw

[meyrevived]

Looks like just another one of the bazillion GFP animals; not a chimera, just a plasmid-infected embryo let to grow.

[violent_giggles]

I thought it was plasmid-transfected?

I LOVE WHEN THINGS GO GREEN. SOMETIMES BLUE.

[arwydd]

Niiiice! Freaky genetics stuff is always A+ in my book.