Mark Laita first met the Whittaker family in Odd, West Virginia, five years ago and has continued to visit them to share ...

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 ...

"Many endangered species struggle to recover even with intensive conservation measures," first author Daichi Tsujimoto said. ...

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 ...

New research from the Royal Veterinary College, in collaboration with Cornell University, has found inbreeding to be a contributing factor in mid- and late-term pregnancy loss in Thoroughbreds. This ...

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 ...

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 ...

An endangered silverback mountain gorilla from the Nyakamwe-Bihango family looks for food within the forest in Virunga national park near Goma in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, May 3, 2014.

The hole in the top of this 100,000-year-old skull from China, researchers say, reflects genetic mutations that result from inbreeding. Image via PLOS ONE/Wu et. al. In 2010, the surprising discovery ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. SEATTLE (AP) — People have taken many steps ...