Ilia Ivanov was determined to find a way to hybridize humans and chimps, but the idea never should’ve made it beyond science fiction.

Homo sapiens and Neanderthals were probably interbreeding over a huge area stretching from western Europe into Asia. It was thought that this probably happened in the eastern Mediterranean region, but ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Zoologist Ilia Ivanov was the Soviet researcher who proverbially flew too close to the sun when it came to the fantasy of a human-ape hybrid. Around ...