Documentary filmmaker Mark Laita did his best to help the Whittaker clan - aka 'America's most inbred family', spending time ...

The northern and southern maned sloths may look very similar from the outside, but their genomes reveal different stories: ...

There are few topics in the world of pedigree theory—and for that matter in the Thoroughbred community as a whole—that are more emotive than the subject of inbreeding. On one hand, inbreeding, and ...

Inbreeding and the health and reproductive issues that come with are causing leopards to be more vulnerable to extinction the study found A new study from Panthera, a global wild cat conservation ...

SEATTLE – People have taken many steps in recent decades to help the Pacific Northwest's endangered killer whales, which have long suffered from starvation, pollution and the legacy of having many of ...

Inbreeding is commonly associated with reductions in fitness 1,2,3,4,5,6, yet reported effects vary. Several studies of birds, for example, have shown strong inbreeding depression on hatching success ...

Zookeepers slaughtered a perfectly healthy giraffe in Denmark Sunday, then hacked up its body in front of children and served the remains to lions before hacking up the murdered mammal in front of ...

Signs of Inbreeding Among SoCal Mountain Lions Raise Extinction Fears Researchers have long had genetic evidence of inbreeding, but the malformed sperm is the first evidence that inbreeding is ...

Haplodiploidy is one of the most widespread mechanisms of sex determination in animals. In many Hymenoptera, including all hitherto investigated social species, diploid individuals, which are ...

The two-time Emmy nominee goes behind the scenes of his Monster of the Week classics, including "Home," "Squeeze," and "Die Hand Die Verletzt." ...

There are plenty of reasons not to fool around with your siblings or even your cousins. Just check out the sad history of the European monarchies, whose inbreeding created plenty of wacko and/or ...

Inbreeding depression is a major selective force favoring outcrossing in flowering plants. Some self-fertilization, however, should weaken the harmful effects of inbreeding by exposing genetic load to ...