Some people preferred to give the carcass a cryptozoological origin story, due to the animal’s likeness to a legendary creature called Altamaha-ha, which is Georgia’s riff on the Loch Ness monster. The resemblance to the cryptid has resulted in experts cautioning that the whole thing could have been a hoax.
Source: vice.com
The discovery that wounds in the fetus can heal without scarring has prompted scientists to work on designing new biomaterials based on the properties of the fetal skin as promising regenerative strategies.
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It is a bit of a stretch, but by no means impossible or even unlikely that a hybrid or a chimera combining a human being and a chimpanzee could be produced in a laboratory. After all, human and chimp (or bonobo) share, by most estimates, roughly 99 percent of their nuclear DNA. Granted this 1 percent difference presumably involves some key alleles, the newgene-editing tool CRISPR offers the prospect (for some, the nightmare) of adding and deleting targeted genes as desired.
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