There are several hybrid animals that are the result of intentional crosses between similar species of domestic animals. Some that come to mind are intentional crosses between horses and donkeys, ...

What do you call a hybrid created when a grizzly bear and a polar bear mate? The answer might soon be common knowledge, as climate change has pushed these two species of bears together. As a result, ...

In a new study conducted by Illinois Natural History Survey, scientists discovered by chance that the virile crayfish species, faxonius virilis, are interbreeding with native crayfish in the Current ...

A piece of bone from a cave in Russia has yielded what may be the biggest archaeological find of the year, media reported on August 30. The bone belonged to an ancient human who had a Neanderthal ...

Pikas are fluffy mammals that live at high altitudes across the West. They squeak when danger nears. The squeaky fluff-balls are considered indicators of climate change because they’re so sensitive to ...

The findings contribute to a growing understanding that hybridisation has been an important factor in evolution Two mammoth molars found in Canada reveal that there was long-term hybridisation between ...

A recent study from Cambridge University has revealed new insights into human evolution, casting doubt on the long-standing belief about the origins of Homo sapiens. According to the research, ...

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In the penultimate episode of Crash Course Zoology, we use everything we've learned so far to try and figure out what a "species" even is anyway! As you'll see, the incredible diversity of animals ...

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Today’s red jungle fowl — the wild forebears of the domesticated chicken — are becoming more chickenlike. New research suggests that a large proportion of the wild fowl’s DNA has been inherited from ...

SINCE the opportunity of studying an animal population in which interbreeding and genetical mixing between two hitherto good and mainly allopatric sub-species is taking place must be relatively ...