Inbreeding and the health and reproductive issues that come with are causing leopards to be more vulnerable to extinction the study found A new study from Panthera, a global wild cat conservation ...

SEATTLE – People have taken many steps in recent decades to help the Pacific Northwest's endangered killer whales, which have long suffered from starvation, pollution and the legacy of having many of ...

Signs of Inbreeding Among SoCal Mountain Lions Raise Extinction Fears Researchers have long had genetic evidence of inbreeding, but the malformed sperm is the first evidence that inbreeding is ...

Purebred dogs might look flawless on the outside, but their beauty often hides a disturbing genetic truth. For generations, breeders have prioritized traits like coat color and snub noses over genetic ...

The small size and isolation of the endangered population of Southern Resident killer whales in the Pacific Northwest have led to high levels of inbreeding. This inbreeding has contributed to their ...

SEATTLE — People have taken many steps in recent decades to help the Pacific Northwest's endangered killer whales, which have long suffered from starvation, pollution and the legacy of having many of ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. SEATTLE (AP) — People have taken many steps ...