When two different species procreate, hybridization is at play. It is a practice that is not uncommon in the wild but is far more commonly known to happen in captivity, where species that would ...

There are no wild ligers. Indeed, hybrids were once thought to be rare in nature—and of little consequence in an evolutionary sense. But now we know they can play an important role in speciation—the ...

North America's mammoth species were breeding together within the past 40,000 years. Fossil teeth found in Canada show that ...

Researchers in Australia have sounded the alarm after discovering that a threatened frog species has been interbreeding with a more abundant variety, hindering conservation efforts. The discovery, ...

Bangladesh is home to less than 500 Phayre’s langurs and 600 capped langurs in the rainforests in the country’s northeast. A recent study has unveiled a trend of hybridization between Phayre’s langurs ...

Warming temperatures have prompted a rare hybridization of a blue jay and green jay, according to researchers at the ...

Excitons, bound states between an electron (i.e., a negatively charged particle) and a hole (i.e., the absence of an electron ...