May 3 (UPI) --Biologists and conservation scientists have long been operating under the assumption that inbreeding should be avoided at all costs, but a new survey -- published Monday in the journal ...

The results of inbreeding can be very distressing to witness. In this Instagram post, we see a captive lion with skull deformities, and in this post, we see another lion with drastically shortened ...

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 ...

The genome of a once-endangered songbird shows extensive signs of inbreeding, according to a new study. Because inbreeding can negatively impact survival and reproduction, the results could guide ...

The small size and isolation of the endangered population of Southern Resident killer whales in the Pacific Northwest have led to high levels of inbreeding. This inbreeding has contributed to their ...

Inbreeding depression describes the reduction in biological fitness arising when closely related individuals mate. By increasing homozygosity, it exposes deleterious recessive alleles and reduces ...

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 their ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Researcher Larissa Slaney, from Heriot-Watt University, is developing a technique to monitor inbreeding among cheetahs using just ...

For reproduction, I have been using a bull which is an exotic breed; it is more of a Friesian. Neighboring farmers have also been using this bull. We have found this method more affordable and ...