Dogs have played an important role in the act of herding larger domesticated animals for over 6,000 years, and they’ve ...

In animal breeding, our goal is to exploit the small genetic differences between animals – that less than 1% difference – to breed for more economically, environmentally and socially ...

Ligers, zorses, and pizzlies: How animal hybrids happen. Interbreeding between animals of different lineages is widespread in nature—and may reveal some of the mysteries of evolution.

In fact, horses are a diverse species with more than 400 different breeds. Humans first domesticated horses close to 4,000 years ago. In the centuries since then, we have used breeding to evolve ...

Some groups of animals, such as birds, produce hybrids much more easily than others. More than 10% produce fertile hybrids, with different penguin species among those which can breed to have healthy ...