Never-before-seen colorful bird hybrid surprises scientists. The offspring of a scarlet tanager and rose-breasted grosbeak—distantly related birds whose evolutionary paths diverged 10 million ...

Mulvihill caught the bird and extracted a blood sample to study the hybrid animal’s genes. While some animal hybrids are well known, like the mule, this case was more unusual due to the ...

New York native and pilot Michael Schneider’s passion for helping animals started at a young age — when he was just 6 years ...

A Canada goose and greater white-fronted goose caused quite a stir when the two paired up, mated, and created a nest of eggs together.

From pizzly bears to wolphins, here are 10 of the strangest animal hybrids. Borneo's 'mystery monkey' ... Golden-crowned manakins (Lepidothrix vilasboasi) are hybrid birds in the Amazon rainforest.

The animal kingdom showcases surprising hybrids, offspring of different species sharing traits. These real-life creatures, some natural and others captive-bred, challenge biology. Mules, ligers ...

New hybrids are appearing more frequently, from canid mixes like wolves and coyotes (creating the "coywolf") to marine mammal hybrids and unexpected bird crosses. Some of these animals are even ...

Five Shocking Animal Hybrids That Truly Exist in Nature, ... the first known hybrid bird species in the Amazon Dysmorodrepanis via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY-SA 3.0. The ...

Last year, bird flu killed more than 40 million egg-laying birds. Including ducks and chickens, 148 million birds have been ordered euthanized since H5N1 began spreading around the U.S. in 2022 ...

The offspring of a rose-breasted grosbeak and a scarlet tanager is the "first-ever documented hybrid of its kind." The new hybrid songbird, affectionately called the "tanabeak," was found in the ...

Bird flu is continuing to spread in animals across the United States more than a year after the first human case was detected. The number of confirmed cases in humans has held steady for almost ...