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 ...

The results of an inbreeding study published June 29 that examines the impact of inbreeding in Thoroughbreds delivers a word of caution to breeders worldwide and at the same time offers hope. The ...

Royal weddings in the past were more like important business contracts. Marrying a cousin could protect a country's border, a ...

In Robinson et al. (2022), we employed genomic and simulation analyses to demonstrate that the critically endangered vaquita porpoise has a reduced potential for future inbreeding depression ...

Humans generally leave more descendants if they marry someone who is not too closely related. So highly inbred royal families experience many genetic disorders like hemophilia. Inbreeding is connected ...