Granted, ligers aren't known to have any spectacular or special magical skills, but genetically they are a 50-50 mix of lion and tiger. A tigon is the result of male tiger mating with a female ...

Animals also choose their mates, sometimes with a great deal of care. Mating systems are important to understand because they reflect the result of natural selection on mate choice, and ultimately ...

These large cat hybrids result from the mating between a tiger and lion, with each belonging to a different male-female ...

Yet when they are brought together artificially, they can interbreed. Such hybrids are called tions and ligers. Do they challenge the definition of species? Not really. The key words are ...

Some animals, like Komodo dragons and sharks, were found to reproduce without mating, a process termed parthenogenesis. California condors, stick insects, blind snakes, tardigrades, and some fish ...

A species is a group of organisms that interbreed to produce fertile offspring. Selective breeding is when organisms are deliberately bred so their offspring have the desirable characteristics.

Yet when they are brought together artificially, they can interbreed. Such hybrids are called tions and ligers. Do they challenge the definition of species? Not really. The key words are ...

That mating behavior was such accepted science that in 1982, when Panamanian marine biologist Arcadio Rodaniche reported finding an octopus that mated beak to beak and cohabited between sex acts ...

Ligers don't exist in the wild. They're a hybrid of the lion and the tiger. While the two species could theoretically ...

A tigon is the offspring of a male tiger and a lioness. Historically, ligers only exist in captivity because lions and tigers live in different habitats.

Maneuvering the organ into mating position involves many swings and misses. And yet, she says, the male “had to evolve to that size and shape to get where it needs to go” in the female’s ...