Ilya Ivanovich was a Russian biologist born in 1870 who achieved a long list of accomplishments in his field, which happened to be artificial insemination. It was claimed that he could inseminate 500 mares with the sperm of just one stallion, which is impressive on both the scientist's and the horse's parts. When you're at the top of your game, your mind naturally wanders … [Read more...] about The Russian Scientist Who Tried To Construct A Human-Chimp Hybrid (In The Worst Way Possible)
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Scientists Are Astounded By A Hybrid Fish’s Birth Of Two Species That Last Coexisted As An Ancestor In The Jurassic
A new hybrid fish created through surprise fertilization in a fish nursery was bred from two species that are more distant from one another than humans and mice on the evolutionary tree. A recent study, described in the journal Genes, describes how sperm from an American paddlefish was able to fertilize the eggs of a Russian sturgeon, giving rise to an unheard-of hybrid … [Read more...] about Scientists Are Astounded By A Hybrid Fish’s Birth Of Two Species That Last Coexisted As An Ancestor In The Jurassic