Usually, when two different species mate, it’s a disaster. At least, that’s what scientists had generally thought about hybrids, the offspring of these unions. But some researchers are starting to ...

Today's potato evolved from tomatoes 9 million years ago, according to new research. Natural "interbreeding" in the wild between tomato plants and potato-like species from South America gave rise to ...

In this video I am going to look into what fossils can reveal to us about the hybridization that occurred with early humans during the Late Pleistocene in Western Eurasia. I have spoken many times now ...

What do you get when you cross a blue jay with a green jay? That’s not the start of a joke, but the subject of a new study that aims to describe a hybrid bird never encountered before in the wild. The ...