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The human dog hybrid story seems to be circulating once again. This happens every few months, the announcement that someone, somewhere, has been cross-breeding and creating a human dog hybrid. As an example:
In addition to releasing limited information about their new genetic creation, scientists released several image stills of the human dog hybrid (a genetic mammalian female) nursing several offspring. This raises questions and concerns about how long the Chinese hybrid program has been in existence.
While we cannot, of course, be sure that there is no plan to create a human dog hybrid, China is a large place after all, but we can in fact be certain that the photos which accompany this story have nothing at all to do with such plans for genome mixing.
Here's the real explanation. The photos are of a piece of art. By this artist. What makes the images so unsettling is that in creating her human dog hybrid sculpture she's used very much the human skeletal structure and then clothed it in the outward appearance of a dog and posed it more like a dog than a human: at least, as much as that is possible using the human skeletal structure.
Other pieces of her work do something similar in blending meerkats and humans to the same unsettling effect.
No, there is no human dog hybrid, but there is an interesting sculpture of one and has been for some years: which is why every few months we get this story doing the rounds again.
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