Animals from various lineages frequently reproduce in nature, which may help explain some of the evolution’s riddles. Erica Larson, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Denver, claims that interbreeding across disparate lineages is the genetic cause of a hybrid species. (Photo : Image from Hkandy under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, […]
How animals hybrids happen, from ligers to zorses
In the summer of 2020, scientists in Pennsylvania caught sight of something no one had ever seen before: a bird that looked like a rose-breasted grosbeak but sang like a scarlet tanager. Upon closer analysis, the animal was later determined to be a hybrid, the offspring of a mating event between two separate species. “When […]