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 ...

We may think of cross-breeding as something that just happens with domestic animals, but it can happen in the wild as well ...

Researchers have shown that an Amazonian butterfly is a hybrid species, formed by two other species breeding together almost 200,000 years ago. The discovery, by an international team led by ...

Most of the wild canines in Australia are dingoes, and interbreeding between dogs and dingoes is rare – laying to rest concerns that dingoes are virtually extinct in the wild. Of DNA collected from ...

Many wild polecats in Britain are part ferret. The weasel-like mammals have thoroughly interbred with their domesticated relatives as they have spread out from a small population in Wales. European ...

UNDATED (WKRC) - As global temperatures rise, we're seeing how climate change is impacting not just people, but animals too. And with the changes in habitats also comes changes in mating. Scientists ...

As the climate heats up rapidly, many species will struggle to avoid extinction. If they had time, they could evolve to the new environmental conditions. But they don’t. That’s where hybridisation ...

Researchers completed genomic research on carcasses of the largest animals that have ever lived to understand North Atlantic whale populations. By Darren Incorvaia Darren Incorvaia previously wrote ...