Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When it comes to love, a group of giraffes is keeping it in the family. It may be killing them. Biologists discovered alarmingly ...

Purebred dogs might look flawless on the outside, but their beauty often hides a disturbing genetic truth. For generations, breeders have prioritized traits like coat color and snub noses over genetic ...

Inbreeding and the health and reproductive issues that come with are causing leopards to be more vulnerable to extinction the study found Kelli Bender is the Pets Editor at PEOPLE. She has been ...

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 ...

Signs of Inbreeding Among SoCal Mountain Lions Raise Extinction Fears Researchers have long had genetic evidence of inbreeding, but the malformed sperm is the first evidence that inbreeding is ...

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A facial deformity known as "Habsburg jaw," famously noted in the Habsburg dynasty of Spanish and Austrian royals, can be attributed to inbreeding. According to a new study published in the Annals of ...

Many natural populations experience inbreeding and genetic drift as a consequence of nonrandom mating or low population size. Furthermore, they face environmental challenges that may interact ...

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 ...