Nature is full of surprises, but few are as fascinating as hybrid animals, creatures born from crossing two different species ...

Scientists have successfully grown embryos that contain a combination of human and monkey cells, a major breakthrough in a rapidly advancing field of genetics that researchers say could one day ...

On this planet there are plenty of animal species that are very closely related. In some cases these animals are so closely related that they can actually interbreed and create hybrid animals but what ...

The bear scientists shot in the Canadian arctic in 2016 was a biological mystery. It looked like a grizzly bear, complete with long claws and a prominent snout, but most of its fur was white. Call it ...

Over the years, claims about adorable black-and-white "pandogs" have spread online, suggesting that two beloved species — man's best friend and China's best-known animal — have interbred. Footage of ...

The offspring of two horses will be a horse, and the offspring of two donkeys will be a donkey. But the offspring of a horse and a donkey will be a mule. And most mules are infertile, so mules are not ...

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 ...

A team of researchers recently discovered the kunga as the earliest example of human animal hybrid breeding. The animal was a cross between a female donkey and a male Syrian wild ass and was used to ...

The researchers who made this discovery think the hybrid wolves’ DNA could help them thrive in a changing landscape. Conventional wisdom holds that the wolf packs slowly recolonizing not only ...

Scientists in Japan have created hybrid plant-animal cells, essentially making animal cells that can gain energy from sunlight like plants. The breakthrough could have major benefits for growing ...