12 October 2022 Human brain cells implanted in rats prompt excitement — and concern Rat–human hybrid brains offer new ways to study human neurological disorders, but also raise ethical questions.

One prominent bioethicist said these experiments, even in their early stages, “open Pandora’s box” to a future where living human-nonhuman hybrid animals can be raised to full maturity.

The human-animal hybrid has been done countless times before, so when “What We Do in the Shadows” prosthetics designer Paul Jones was tasked with bringing some hybrid creatures to the FX ...

NEWS 15 April 2021 First monkey–human embryos reignite debate over hybrid animals The chimaeras lived up to 19 days — but some scientists question the need for such research.

The animals are mostly always sterile (such as mules, the donkey-horse hybrid, or the liger, the lion-tiger hybrid), which means they must be intentionally bred into existence in each individual case.

Animals occasionally mate with members of another species, and nature occasionally endorses the match with a hybrid. Humans have taken advantage of hybridization to create striking oddities for ...

The latest evidence of this phenomenon can be found in an article headlined “Animal-Human Hybrids Spark Controversy,” published in the current National Geographic News, which reports that ...

Animals did not always come forward through nature. At times, humans ‘created’ and crossbred them to create new species for their use and purposes. Here we mention 8 hybrid animals that were ...

In 1929, archaeologists discovered the 140,000-year-old skeleton of a young girl in Skhūl Cave. The researchers believed her ...

Human beings are social animals with a need for connection that is powerful and primitive. The roots of connection go back to our prehistory as a matter of survival. Our brains have evolved to be ...

Braun said: "Human life is distinct and sacred, and research that creates an animal-human hybrid or transfers a human embryo into an animal womb or vice versa should be completely prohibited, and ...