Chimaeras

It is when we talk about non-beings, such as chimaeras, that being in a certain sense once again enters the scene. ❋ Spruyt, Joke (2007)

"Remember there are almost 1,200 species of sharks, rays and chimaeras worldwide and the white, bull and tiger sharks most often implicated in attacks on humans are only three of these," observes Cailliet. ❋ Dr. Douglas Fields (2011)

Sharks and their relatives, the skates, rays and chimaeras, are cartilaginous fish (they contain no bones). ❋ Dr. Reese Halter (2010)

Robertson, E. Formation of germ-line chimaeras from embryo-derived teratocarcinoma cell lines. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Robertson, E.J. The ability of EK cells to form chimaeras after selection of clones in G418 and some observations on the integration of retroviral vector proviral DNA into EK cells. ❋ Unknown (2007)

You mean chimaeras like crocoducks, or THE Chimaera, daughter of Typhon and Echidna, and not ratfishes, lichens, or grafted fruit trees. ❋ Unknown (2009)

They say that the reprogrammed cells meet all the tests of pluripotent cells – they form colonies, propagate continuously and form cancerous growths called teratomas, as well as producing chimaeras. ❋ Unknown (2007)

By this logic, identical twins are one person (soul-wise), genetic chimaeras are two people, and a set of siamese twins with one head and four legs is the same number of people as a set of siamese twins with two heads and two legs, which is pretty counterintuitive. ❋ Unknown (2007)

There are no chimaeras, and if one were ever found it would be a serious problem for evolutionary theory. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Passion had supervened and had finished the work of precipitating him into chimaeras without object or bottom. ❋ Unknown (2008)

It seemed to her, at intervals, that she was entering the land of chimaeras; she said to herself: “Is this reality?” ❋ Unknown (2008)

I wrote to Albus, describing, perhaps insensitively, the wonders of my journey, from narrow escapes from chimaeras in Greece to the experiments of the Egyptian alchemists. ❋ Rowling, J. K. (2007)

Now the fire was mutating, forming a gigantic pack of fiery beasts: Flaming serpents, chimaeras, and dragons rose and fell and rose again, and the detritus of centuries on which they were feeding was thrown up into the air into their fanged mouths, tossed high on clawed feet, before being consumed by the inferno. ❋ Rowling, J. K. (2007)

A strange picture we make on our way to our chimaeras, ceaselessly marching, grudging ourselves the time for rest; indefatigable, adventurous pioneers. ❋ Unknown (2005)

The geometrical path took them among ballooning, ripped arrases, smelling of dust and an older bestiary than the one by the fire ... unicorns, chimaeras ... and what had he seen festooning the child-sized entranceway? ❋ Pynchon, Thomas (1978)