In the Smoky Mountains of North Carolina, Rackham student Matthew Chatfield carefully inspects each salamander before he snaps off their tails with his hands and brings the tails back to his lab in ...

A good way to start an argument among biologists is to ask them what seems a simple question: "What is a species?" To evolutionary theorists, a species is a fundamental unit, and transitions between ...

Dominic has a degree from the University of Winchester in film production and is currently studying for his second degree in biology at the Open University. Dominic has a degree from the University of ...

Modern-day felines may be the ultimate mutts. Different species of cats mated with each other at several points in history, a new genetic study of felines reveals. These ancient cat hybrids may have ...

The liger is the offspring of a male lion (Panthera leo) and a female tiger (Panthera tigris). There is another type of lion-tiger hybrid called a tigon, which results from the breeding of a male ...

Let's face it. Centaurs, chimeras, griffins, the Little Mermaid, the Thunder Cats and all those cool hybrid creatures from Avatar: The Last Airbender are just legends and fantasies. And Peter Parker ...

Tyler the tigon was terribly rare. A big cat like him isn't found everywhere. Unique from his ears to his tail to his tum, his dad was a tiger, a lion his mum... Chickenshed's Tales from the Shed team ...

What was your special interest or passion when you were little? For me, it was baseball. I taught myself to read at age four by trying to decipher the box scores in the daily newspaper. I loved the ...

Seven-year-old Allen has a problem many of us face: He would like to be half-man, half-cheetah, but he doesn't know where to begin. Does the technology exist to give him the spots, speed, adorable ...