Beluga whales in Alaska's Bristol Bay seem to avoid inbreeding in a surprisingly effective way by changing mates over time.

For centuries, European royal families arranged marriages within their own bloodlines to preserve power, alliances, and what they believed to be “pure” heritage. Over 16 generations, this strategy ...

Royal weddings in the past were more like important business contracts. Marrying a cousin could protect a country's border, a ...

Black abalone once carpeted the rocky shores of California by the millions. The large, long-lived sea snails sustained ...

Grizzly bears were put on the Endangered Species List in 1975 — 51 years ago. They will not be recovered until bears from the Northern Continental Divide and the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem can ...

Legend has it that when Mount Buye on the Tibetan Plateau was married to Mount Zhaxiangqian, 7 golden wild yaks were given as ...

DNA analysis revealed that Cape leopard cubs have developed unique adaptations to survive in mountainous, food-scarce areas of Africa.

A frozen cell line from a black-footed ferret that died in 1988 is helping scientists add genetic diversity to one of America ...

Dominic has a degree from the University of Winchester in film production and is currently studying for his second degree in biology at the Open University. Dominic has a degree from the University of ...

The meager dating pool available to Eastern Massasauga rattlesnake poses this problem for Michigan's only species of venomous snake: inbreeding. New research led by a former Michigan State University ...

The Habsburg kings of Spain, who presided over the first global empire in the 16th and 17th centuries, died out because of their fondness for marrying their relatives, the first genetic analysis of ...

Jaipur: A four-year-old tigress, RBT-2313, along with her two cubs, was captured on camera traps in the Ranthambore Tiger Reserve (RTR) in Sawai Madhopur. The sighting occurred on Monday morning in ...