Animals occasionally mate with members of another species, and nature occasionally endorses the match with a hybrid. Humans have taken advantage of hybridization to create striking oddities for ...

Over the years we've seen the debut of hybrid animals like the liger and the wholfin, with each new mixed creature raising questions about interspecies breeding and the future of unique animals like ...

Scientists that were trying to learn more about sex determination in a type of fish mixed eggs and sperm from two different species of fish in a control experiment not intended to yield viable embryos ...

Did you know that some of the world's biggest cats don't actually exist in the wild? These incredible animals are known as ...

A baby liger celebrated turning 100 days old in central China on September 15. Jing Jing was born on April 26, one of three cubs, to a female liger and a male tiger — the first of its kind in the ...

A team of geneticists, archaeologists, and paleontologists believes they’ve settled the identity of an enigmatic equid from ancient Mesopotamia. That animal is a kunga, which the researchers show was ...

Do you know that hybrids are born when two different species mate and produce an offspring that inherits the traits from both ...

Eleanor has an undergraduate degree in zoology from the University of Reading and a master’s in wildlife documentary production from the University of Salford. Eleanor has an undergraduate degree in ...