Animals occasionally mate with members of another species, and nature occasionally endorses the match with a hybrid. Humans have taken advantage of hybridization to create striking oddities for ...

A team of geneticists, archaeologists, and paleontologists believes they’ve settled the identity of an enigmatic equid from ancient Mesopotamia. That animal is a kunga, which the researchers show was ...

Over the years, the animal kingdom has given us some truly surprising hybrids, which include creatures born when two different species mate and produce offspring that share traits from both parents.