Inbreeding of dogs can lead to blindness, deafness, and genetic diseases. Learn how it impacts generations of dogs and what ...

A new study published in the American Journal of Human Biology has uncovered a significant relationship between family ...

A study published last month (February 24) in Current Biology finds that death, dispersals, and an unknown innate strategy help wild baboons avoid inbreeding. But the animals do sometimes mate with ...

The family in question is often considered America’s most renowned inbred clan, and Laita’s films about them have garnered millions of views. In a more recent incident, a family suspected of being ...

One of Britain's foremost experts on child health has defended the right for first cousins to marry and dismissed concerns about inbreeding. Professor Dominic Wilkinson, an NHS neonatologist and ...

It is a failed state. And, by the way, speaking of the 68 IQ, one of the reasons -- I mean, undoubtedly, one of the reasons for that IQ is the inbreeding in the country. There's a lot of ...

Inbreeding or chlamydia? It’s an impossible situation. But it’s a situation that koalas are facing in the suburbs of Sydney, Australia, where low levels of genetic diversity are threatening one of the ...

That’s causing dangerous inbreeding and genetic-diversity declines, leaving some mountain lion populations vulnerable to extinction. In fact, some could disappear in just 15 years if inbreeding gets ...

Wagyu cattle have seen an upsurge in popularity within the United States in recent years, as consumers seek improved meat quality and intramuscular fat, also known as marbling. The small effective ...